Posted on 03/10/2025 8:44:08 AM PDT by cgbg
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.
I think that the Dept. of Health Education and Welfare was established under Eisenhower. Don’t know how much or if the Federal government was involved in those three areas before HEW. Of course, Each was spun off as a separate Department of its own, thus increasing the bureaucracy.
ANd just look at all the Urban areas that have been developed so well by these guys/S
HUD and the Department of Education are both excellent examples of government agencies destroying everything they touch.
oh...
darn.
Fantastic! No more HUD “tester” calls!
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.
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