I think it will be part of a cash grab that has become familiar to observers of the reform conservatives:
Devolve federal authority to the states. Block-grant federal HUD dollars to local Republican government officials who will then disburse it to connected developers.
Use eminent domain to seize property and set up enterprise zones that provide generous zoning incentives and property tax rebates to businesses and developers in exchange for precious little in promised job creation.
Redevelopment taxing districts governed by unelected appointees who use zoning variances and overly broad definitions of urban blight to force questionable redevelopment projects through, and
Other schemes intended to side-step normal growth management oversight provisions, prevailing-wage statutes and property taxes.
The result will be the same as the reconstruction of New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina: a whiter, gentrified community marketed to upscale professionals.
Building densities that overwhelm underfunded public schools, aging water and sewer systems and overcrowded roads.
And the destruction of long-standing black neighborhoods as longtime residents find themselves priced out of the market.
It is to massively reduce the Federal Government Workforce. By putting the most objectionable people possible in every Cabinet position, millions of Federal employees will quit to avoid working for azzhole clowns.
Which will be an interesting point to debate after the dust settles. Are our inner cities better off or worse because of who headed HUD was incompetent, or did the bombs dropping clear the land for development happen to be a good thing? But the point missed in either case will be the infrastructure-water, sewers, and electrical lines.
The funny thing about Dr. Carson, is his supporters always tout his brilliance as a surgeon in separating con-joined twins but never follow through on how successful the surgeries were for those kids and the record is not great.
60 million people think a crooked TV game show host with a pronounced inability to tell the truth about almost anything should be President. They think his appointment of equally dishonest and unqualified people to help him is pure genius. Heās avowedly litigious, a bankruptcy collecting liar of a businessman with a litany of very public failures and bad decisions. He has publicly bragged about committing sexual assault with impunity. 60 million people think this man should be President. Itās plausible recovery from this is in doubt. The U.S. may have the equivalent of Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
Trump still needs to nominate the Assistant Secretaries for each department (public housing, Community Planning and Development, Multi-family, fair housing, etc)ā¦itās possible those people could be just as inept or maybe not. That being said, it usually takes a while for the Assistant Secretaries to come on board which usually means the Deputy Assistant Secretaries are in charge. The DAS are career employees who know what theyāre doing and no the programs.
These people really have NO CONCEPT of what it means to work for a living. STUDY for the job you want to do. That ANYONE in their right mind would think that a surgeon that had a few political thoughts and was loyal to Trump is qualified to run an agency like HUD is mind boggling.
Besides being delusional, he is completely unqualified for this position. He has never managed a department much less an organization this large. Just another typical Trump apt.
Sure. Then they can hire lots of minimum-wage private police to round up the homeless and incarcerate them is private prisons. See how great weāre becoming!
āProsecutors and Congressional investigators uncovered extensive evidence to show how Mr. Pierceās aides, who said they had been acting on his orders, distributed millions of dollars in housing subsidies to prominent Republican consultants at a time when the Reagan administration was sharply reducing the agencyās budget. Under President Ronald Reagan, annual spending on subsidized housing programs dropped to $8 billion from $26 billion, cuts that Mr. Pierce defended.ā
āHe did not develop a close relationship with President Reagan, who mistook Mr. Pierce for a mayor at a White House reception in June 1981. (āāHello, Mr. Mayor,āā the president said.) The widely reported anecdote clearly embarrassed Mr. Pierce and dogged him for the rest of his cabinet tenure.ā
Donāt people learn from the past. It took years and a couple of presidencies for HUD to recover.
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