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There have been a few articles out there but this is the most complete one I have found.

The article notes that nothing has been confirmed by the administration at this point.

The article correctly notes that closing all HUD offices in a state requires Congressional approval.

Hopefully President Trump can drag Congress across the finish line on this issue.

1 posted on 03/10/2025 8:44:08 AM PDT by cgbg
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More comments—there is a discussion about probationary employees already fired and the planned RIF (reduction in force).


2 posted on 03/10/2025 8:45:05 AM PDT by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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Another enormous sinkhole of corruption and theft of taxpayer funds, that definitely should be closed and eliminated completely.


3 posted on 03/10/2025 8:45:49 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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They need to consolidate to a countryside office.


4 posted on 03/10/2025 8:46:24 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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So, HUD will become CHUD?..................


6 posted on 03/10/2025 8:54:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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8 posted on 03/10/2025 8:54:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Bilowich said service reductions at HUD tend to affect older adults who rely on the agency’s programs, including Section 202, which provides low-income people who are 62 or older with low-cost housing and services for independent living.

I don’t think HUD provides direct services. They fund local programs and CBDG grants, etc. So the programs will continue, just managed from regional offices not one in every state.


9 posted on 03/10/2025 8:55:32 AM PDT by Steven Scharf
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Housing and Urban Development (HUD) belongs under the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Several decades ago these former cities transitioned into open air prisons/mental asylums.

16 posted on 03/10/2025 9:24:12 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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HUD Fanny and Freddy need to go.


20 posted on 03/10/2025 9:57:37 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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When Jack Kemp was in charge of HUD he forced the city of Costa Mesa to let illegal aliens live in HUD housing.

Bush Republicans during both of their regimes were the enemy of Californians who were fighting the illegal alien invasion.

Obama was using HUD to advance his war on the suburbs, particularly “white” suburbs.

The sooner that HUD is permanently closed down the sooner that average Americans won’t be victmized by the federal government transforming their neighborhoods.


21 posted on 03/10/2025 10:02:51 AM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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ANd just look at all the Urban areas that have been developed so well by these guys/S


23 posted on 03/10/2025 10:42:57 AM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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oh...
darn.


25 posted on 03/10/2025 10:49:36 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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Fantastic! No more HUD “tester” calls!


26 posted on 03/10/2025 11:00:13 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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HUD has been a primary mechanism for government grift for decades.

Long article from 2009

https://www.downsizinggovernment.org/hud/scandals m

excerpt..

The $65 billion Department of Housing and Urban Development has been plagued by mismanagement and scandal in recent decades. Numerous HUD secretaries have used their power to enrich themselves or to confer special benefits on people with political and financial connections. This essay looks at HUD mismanagement during the tenures of four HUD secretaries under three recent presidents:

Samuel Pierce, 1981-1989, Ronald Reagan's only HUD secretary
Henry Cisneros, 1993-1997, Bill Clinton's first HUD secretary
Andrew Cuomo, 1997-2001, Bill Clinton's second HUD secretary
Alphonso Jackson, 2003-2009, George W. Bush's second HUD secretary

last paragraph:

HUD's history of scandal and corruption fits this pattern. While government officials and advocates for housing subsidies usually paint a romanticized portrait of HUD's programs, the truth is that federal housing intervention has often done far more damage than good. The housing and financial meltdowns of recent years can be partly traced to the distortions injected into markets by federal housing regulations and subsidies through HUD and other agencies. We have learned that when the government intervenes in the housing industry, politically driven decisions lead to corruption and economic distortion, not efficient public policies. The federal government should begin withdrawing from housing markets, including dismantling the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

27 posted on 03/10/2025 12:11:55 PM PDT by yelostar
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