That is the official government site. The descrition is brief and as follows:
"The Department of Housing and Urban Development is the principal Federal agency responsible for programs concerned with the Nation's housing needs, fair housing opportunities, and improvement and development of the Nation's communities.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) was established in the 1965 by the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act (42 U.S.C. 3532-3537). It was created to:
administer the principal programs that provide assistance for housing and for the development of the Nation's communities;
encourage the solution of housing and community development problems through States and localities; and encourage the maximum contributions that may be made by vigorous private homebuilding and mortgage lending industries, both primary and secondary, to housing, community development, and the national economy."
Anyone spot anything in that description mandating ""Social Engineering?"
Further, it was created through a simple Law.
It can be uncreated exactly the same way.
Isn't it almost certain that that :
Either HUD was incompetent in preventing the Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac financial debacle? It seems to have failed in one of its most important missions... or
It was complicit in contributing to the resulting economic disaster which involved Wall Street.
ELIMINATE HUD!!
Read it yurself :
Looks like, until 1968 one could say that there was national ethical consensus; after 1968, there was a wide and significant divide between Congress (who rammed these laws through) and the working taxpayer who had to suffer under the tyranny of the "elected representatives" who went their own way. That divide has gotten almost impossible to close :
"Congress must pass the Law so you can see what's in it!!"