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HUD Secretary Ben Carson tests positive for the coronavirus

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Carson was at the White House for an election night party

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson has tested positive for the coronavirus, a HUD spokesman confirmed.

Carson, who tested positive Monday morning, was at the White House last Tuesday for an election night event, as was White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who also has tested positive for the virus. Carson was around senior administration officials and other Cabinet members during the event.

In a statement, HUD deputy chief of staff Coalter Baker said Carson is in “good spirits” and “feels fortunate to have access to effective therapeutics which aid and markedly speed his recovery.” Continue reading.

Carson Grilled About Lead Paint and Mold in Public Housing

The following article by Jacob Holzman was posted on the Roll Call website June 28, 2018:

How to pay prompts heated exchange

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson Credit: Tom Williams, CQ Roll Call file photo

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson was peppered with questions by lawmakers over the department’s handling of lead paint and mold in public housing, leading to a heated exchange over how to pay for fixing the issue.

At a House Financial Services Committee oversight hearing Wednesday, Rep. Nydia M. Velazquez, D-N.Y., quizzed Carson on the Trump administration’s fiscal 2019 funding request, which called for zeroing out the department’s public housing capital fund, a source used for repairs to public housing.

She raised the case of the New York City Housing Authority, which on June 11 entered into a $1.2 billion consent decree with the Justice Department over numerous living conditions issues, including for failing to meet federal lead safety requirements and to properly conduct inspections of housing facilities. Continue reading “Carson Grilled About Lead Paint and Mold in Public Housing”

Under Ben Carson, HUD Scales Back Fair Housing Enforcement

The following article by Glenn Thrush was posted on the New York Times website March 28, 2018:

Ben Carson, the secretary of housing and urban development, on a housing tour last year in Columbus, Ohio. This month, he struck the words “inclusive” and “free from discrimination” from his department’s mission statement. Credit Ty Wright for The New York Times

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is attempting to scale back federal efforts to enforce fair housing laws, freezing enforcement actions against local governments and businesses, including Facebook, while sidelining officials who have aggressively pursued civil rights cases.

The policy shift, detailed in interviews with 20 current and former Department of Housing and Urban Development officials and in internal agency emails, is meant to roll back the Obama administration’s attempts to reverse decades of racial, ethnic and income segregation in federally subsidized housing and development projects. The move coincides with the decision this month by Ben Carson, the secretary of housing and urban development, to strike the words “inclusive” and “free from discrimination” from HUD’s mission statement. Continue reading “Under Ben Carson, HUD Scales Back Fair Housing Enforcement”