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'A National Disgrace': Minimum Wage Workers Can't Afford Two-Bedroom Apartment In Any State or City in the US

'Dangerous and Disgraceful': HUD Proposal Would Let Homeless Shelters Turn Away Trans People

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

LGBTQ+ activists

Critics condemned the proposal as "yet another example of tragic cruelty of this administration."

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'Breathtaking Cruelty': Trump WH Unveils Plan That Would Evict Tens of Thousands of Kids From Public Housing

Julia Conley, staff writer

"Another despicable action by the Trump administration to disrupt communities...

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'Commendable, If Not Overdue': HUD Files Charges Against Facebook for Virtual Redlining

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks to an audience in 2018.

"Using a computer to limit a person's housing choices can be just as...

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In Latest Attack on Fair Housing Act, Carson Moves to Gut Anti-Segregation Rule

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'Glut of Overpriced Apartments' Has Made Rents Fall for Rich, Soar for Poor in Cities Nationwide

A hurricane damaged house in Loiza, Puerto Rico.

With Housing Assistance About to Be Yanked Away, Sen. Warrren Excoriates 'Shameful' Failure to Help Puerto Ricans

NOAA ship Miller Freeman

'Unconscionable' and 'Shocking': Trump's Head of NOAA Proposes Axing 'Climate' and Conservation From Agency's Mission

Protesting 'Morally Repugnant' Trump Policies, Poor People's Campaign Demands Action on Housing, Health, and Climate

'National Disgrace': Poverty Wages Make Affordable Housing a Myth for Low-Income Americans

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After Countless Billions Lavished on Wealthy, Trump Plan Would Spike Rents of Poor Americans by 20%

Carson Pulls Tool Used by Officials to Identify Segregation

'Stuff of Slumlords': Carson Plan Would Triple Rent on Poorest Americans

Putting Fair Housing Investigations on Back-Burner, Trump's HUD Abandons Core Mission

For Defending Discrimination of Homeless Transgender People, Ben Carson's Fearmongering Called 'Deeply Alarming'

HUD Secretary Ben Carson

Ben Carson Catches Heat for Cutting 'Free From Discrimination' Promise Out of HUD Mission

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Not Brain Surgery: Oreos and Idiots and Arrogant Incompetence Oh My

Exhibit 742 of the evil clown show that is our current government: The surreal "testimony" before House Democrats of alleged HUD Secretary Ben Carson, who in several mind-bending exchanges veered between stupor, belligerence and breathtaking ignorance about his job as he bunglingly defended plans for massive budget cuts and rent increases, compared throwing 55,000 children on the street with oxygen masks on airplanes, and confused foreclosures with cookies. Really.

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ACLU

HUD Moves to Allow Anti-Trans Discrimination in Federally Funded Homeless Shelters

Free Press

Free Press: HUD Action Against Facebook Just a First Step in Protecting Users’ Civil Rights

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

True War on Lead Must Be Comprehensive

Friends of the Earth

New DOI Inspector General Could Cripple Zinke Oversight

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

National Civil Rights Groups File New Major Lawsuit Against Secretary Ben Carson and HUD Over Suspension of Critical Fair Housing Rule

Public Citizen

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Agrees to Uphold Rule Ensuring Access to Housing in High Opportunity Areas Following Successful Lawsuit By Coalition of National Civil Rights Organizations

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Olatunde Johnson, Michelle Aronowitz

The Trump Administration’s Assault on Fair Housing

Rose Ramirez

A Trump Plan to Throw 55,000 Children Out of Their Homes

Julie Hollar

CNN Should Treat Left and Right Alike in Presidential Debates

Mike Lofgren

Reverse Darwinian Selection Afflicts Trump’s Washington

Alan MacLeod

‘Purity Tests’: How Corporate Media Describe Progressives Standing Up for Principles

Michael Winship

Another Day, Another Disaster. And Another, And Another...

George Goehl

Trump’s Policy Agenda Is an All-Out War on Kids

Rajan Menon

The Wages of Poverty in America

Kalena Thomhave

How Justice Kennedy’s Retirement Could Lead to an Increase in Housing Discrimination

George Goehl

There’s an All-Out War on Kids, and Not Just on the Border