Department of Housing and Urban Development
See also Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson and general concerns about Housing.
Timeline
| 2016.12.26 | Obama's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development tweets that Trump would be the, “most corrupt guy to take the Oval Office.” mediaite.com (See also Presidential Transition) |
| 2017.01.12 | Ben Carson, in a confirmation hearing, declines to rule out HUD grants to Trump properties. npr.org (See also Ben Carson, Conflicts of Interest) |
| 2017.01.12 | Democrats press U.S. housing nominee Carson on potential Trump conflicts reuters.com (See also Housing, Ben Carson) |
| 2017.01.12 | Despite Senator Elizabeth Warren's repeated questions Ben Carson refuses to promise that no housing funds will benefit Trump. Carson is also accused of plagiarizing his opening remarks. theguardian.com (See also Ben Carson, Conflicts of Interest, Plagiarism) |
| 2017.01.12 | HUD nominee Ben Carson gives vague answers during confirmation hearing teenvogue.com (See also Ben Carson, Housing) |
| 2017.01.20 | Hours after being sworn into the White House, HUD cancels a program to make mortgages more affordable. twocents.lifehacker.com (See also Housing) |
| 2017.02.18 | Ben Carson is “baffled” and “speechless” when one of his most loyal aides is walked out of the Housing and Urban Development after an op-ed resurfaces in which the aide criticized then-candidate Donald Trump. buzzfeed.com (See also Ben Carson) |
| 2017.06.20 | Trump’s budget calls for sharply reducing funding for programs that shelter the poor and combat homelessness — with a notable exception: It leaves intact a type of federal housing subsidy that is paid directly to private landlords like Trump himself. washingtonpost.com (See also Conflicts of Interest, Housing) |
| 2017.07.11 | Trump is aggressively scaling back government regulations out of public view and often by political appointees with deep industry ties and potential conflicts. propublica.org (See also Conflicts of Interest, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Education, Corruption) |
| 2017.11.02 | Donald Trump has installed at least five people who have been members of his clubs (meaning: they pay money to his company) to senior roles in his administration, from Robin Bernstein and Callista Gingrich, the nation’s new ambassador to the Vatican, to Adolfo Marzol, a member of the Trump National Golf Club in suburban Washington, who serves as a senior adviser at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. usatoday.com (See also Corruption, Conflicts of Interest, Trump Business) |
| 2018.01.31 | Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson allowed his son to help organize an agency “listening tour” in Baltimore last summer despite warnings from department lawyers that doing so risked violating federal ethics rules, according to internal documents. washingtonpost.com (See also Ben Carson, Conflicts of Interest) |
| 2018.02.27 | A senior career official in the US Department of Housing and Urban Development has alleged that she was demoted and replaced with a Donald Trump appointee after refusing to break the law by funding an expensive redecoration of Ben Carson’s office. theguardian.com (See also Ben Carson, Corruption) |
| 2018.02.27 | Department of Housing and Urban Development officials spent $31,000 on a new dining room set for Secretary Ben Carson’s office in late 2017 — just as the White House circulated its plans to slash HUD’s programs for the homeless, elderly and poor, according to federal procurement records. nytimes.com (See also Corruption, Conflicts of Interest, Ben Carson) The purchase of the custom hardwood table, chairs and hutch came a month after a top agency staff member filed a whistle-blower complaint charging Mr. Carson’s wife, Candy Carson, with pressuring department officials to find money for the expensive redecoration of his offices, even if it meant circumventing the law. |
| 2018.03.06 | Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is changing the mission statement of his agency, removing promises of inclusive and discrimination-free communities. huffingtonpost.com (See also Ben Carson, Assaults on Civil Liberties, Racism) |
| 2018.03.28 | 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. nytimes.com (See also Racism, Ben Carson, Assaults on Civil Liberties) The department is aiming to roll back Obama administration attempts to curtail decades of racial, ethnic and income segregation in federally subsidized housing and development projects. |
| 2018.04.25 | U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson proposed raising the amount that low-income families are expected to pay for rent — tripling it for the poorest households — as well as making it easier for property owners to demand work requirements for those receiving federal housing subsidies. washingtonpost.com (See also Ben Carson, Americans in Poverty) |
| 2018.05.07 | Fair-housing advocates plan to file a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and HUD Secretary Ben Carson for suspending an Obama-era rule requiring more than 1,200 communities receiving billions of federal housing dollars to draft plans to desegregate their communities — or risk losing federal funds. washingtonpost.com (See also Racism, Ben Carson, Reversals) |
| 2018.06.28 | The Housing and Urban Development official who first raised concerns about Secretary Ben Carson’s push to redecorate his office alleged that she has been forced to resign. washingtonpost.com (See also Resignations and Dismissals, Ben Carson, Corruption) |
| 2018.09.20 | The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded promotions and pay increases to five political operatives with no housing policy experience within their first months on the job, demonstrating what government watchdogs and career staff describe as a premium put on loyalty over expertise washingtonpost.com (See also Ben Carson, Corruption) “This administration is different, because the people coming in really don’t know housing at all,” said Ron Ashford, who retired as director of HUD’s public-housing supportive-service programs in January after 22 years at the agency. “As a result, they’re pursuing initiatives that aren’t grounded in reality.” |
| 2018.09.21 | Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Dr. Ben Carson told an audience of conservative activists that the sexual assault allegations facing President Donald Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court are part of a plot by socialists to take over America that dates back more than a century. cnbc.com (See also Belief in Conspiracy Theories, Ben Carson) "If you really understand the big picture of what's going on, then what's going on with Kavanaugh will make perfectly good sense to you," Carson said at the annual Values Voter Summit in Washington. "There've been people in this country for a very long time, going all the way back to the Fabians, people who've wanted to fundamentally change this country." |