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To: Land Shark who wrote (1125331)	3/18/2019 10:43:54 PM
From: James Seagrove	Respond to of 1576097

I watched and pretended this was you.

To: Land Shark who wrote (1125331)	3/19/2019 10:35:16 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	2 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo TideGlider Respond to of 1576097

poor poor sharkie smollett, you spew hate as hate is all you have. Christians do not hate former President Jimmy Carter. I do not know of anyone, who hates former President Jimmy Carter. So you post a lie the same as always. And you always post any hate racist white supremist like you can find. The fact that unemployment is so low for all means more of the poor can keep their homes. And Dr. Ben Carson as the head of HUD is trying to provide innovative solutions to help the poor break the cycle of poverty. HUD Secretary Ben Carson lays out his plans for affordable housing and regulatory reform Carson speaks at NMHC Fall Meeting On Friday, Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson spoke at the National Multifamily Housing Council’s Fall Meeting. In his remarks, he highlighted the issues facing the American housing market and laid out plans to address housing shortages and persistent poverty. Keeping with his previous rhetoric on the subject, Carson reiterated his commitment to finding a way to cycle people up and out of public housing developments. Carson laid out three components of his plan for reforming public housing. The first is eliminating policies that increase rents as income goes up. “The current policies ensure that the more our residents earn, the more rent they have to pay. Where then, is the incentive to work, or to get a better paying job, or have two parents living together and sharing their wages? There isn’t any, which really defies common sense. Our rent reform proposal, therefore, removes these perverse incentives by having a three-year recertification of income -- and removes the requirement that tenants must report any income increases, immediately. One could even say it’s like not having to pay taxes for three years,” Carson said in his remarks. The second is to allow public housing authorities the freedom to implement any of the Choice Rent structures for their properties. The third aspect of Carson’s plan is to use HUD funds to provide families in public housing with programs and resources that he hopes will help break poverty cycles. Carson commented on the imbalance between supply and demand in the market and essentially said that private investment through public-private partnerships are the key to addressing the lack of affordable housing in the U.S. According to Carson, only one in four applicants who qualify for HUD assistance get it, and the lack of supply is right at the center of that abysmal rate. This is a position the NMHC and the National Apartment Association hold in conjunction with Carson, and last week, Gables CEO Sue Ansel spoke to HousingWire after giving her testimony on Capitol Hill on behalf of the multifamily industry espousing many of the same ideas regarding public-private partnerships that Carson issued in his remarks at the NMHC Fall Meeting. In May of this year, Carson announced that he would be eliminating the software program used under the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule. This is part of larger reform for the rule, which was put in place to ensure that racial discrimination did not take place in public housing. Critics of Carson’s decision to essentially gut this rule by negating the mandate to use the software used for complying with the rule say that this makes minorities vulnerable to discrimination and that Carson is more concerned about budgeting and pandering to the multifamily industry than maintaining equality. In August, under pressure from advocacy groups, Carson invited the public to comment on the reform process. HUD will be taking public comment and suggestions through October 15. “As many of you are aware, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit which challenged our approach to amending the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, or AFFH, Rule -- in particular, the judge upheld our decision to suspend the use of a computer tool that was failing to help communities meet their fair housing responsibilities, as required under the Fair Housing Act,” Carson said. “The reliance on models and computer technology to make fair housing assessments and decisions was at the center of the current rule. What we want to do in pursuing new rulemaking -- and why we’re asking for public comment from all parties concerned -- is to lessen regulatory burdens, while at the same time, help local officials meet their obligations,” he added. To help add to the supply of affordable housing, Carson is also seeking ways to expand landlord acceptance of housing vouchers. To that end, Carson said he has created an agency-wide task force to address the pain points in the housing voucher process for developers and other multifamily stakeholders. In his remarks at the NMHC's Fall Meeting, Carson essentially rehashed what he has been saying all along: Less money, fewer regulations, better programs and an incentive to move out are the factors in the public housing reform he thinks the nation needs. Time will tell whether his policies help or worsen the affordability crisis.

To: Land Shark who wrote (1125331)	3/19/2019 10:40:40 AM
From: locogringo	2 Recommendations Recommended By RetiredNow Thomas A Watson Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576097

OOPS! CNN Stunned to Find Pro-Trump Latinos: We Want ‘Longer and Taller’ Wall AP19 Mar 2019 CNN went to the U.S.-Mexico border and actually found–and interviewed–Latinos who support President Donald Trump and his border wall. On Monday’s Erin Burnett OutFront, CNN’s Miguel Marquez noted that 34% of Latinos approved of Trump in a recent CNN poll. He said, as a puzzled Erin Burnett looked on, that though a majority of Latinos disapprove of Trump, there are plenty who live along the U.S.-Mexico border who support Trump, believe that there is a “national emergency” at the border, and would like to see the size of the border wall “doubled” or “tripled.” Rolando Rodriguez, who lives a mile from the border in McAllen, Texas, said he wants a 2,600-mile border wall that is “longer and taller.” When asked how much taller he wants the border wall to be, Rodriguez replied, “twice as much at least.” Rodriguez, who said he supports Trump because of religious issues and “border politics,” added that he believes that the border wall will be a barrier for the “bad people” and not the “good people.” CNN also found Mayra Gutierrez, who is in the process of getting her U.S. citizenship so she can vote for Trump. She said she supports Trump because of abortion, the economy, and immigration. “We do have a lot problems here with immigration, and I do support his stance for the wall,” Gutierrez told CNN. Joacim Hernandez, the president of the Hidalgo County Young Republicans, told the outlet that the last time Trump visited the area, there were a lot of Latinos “that were out there supporting him.” Marquez’s interviews were consistent with what former longtime Univision anchor María Elena Salinas told CNN in January about Trump’s appeal among a significant number of Latinos. Salinas implied that Trump could have more support among Latinos than conventional wisdom and even polling suggests. The legendary Spanish-language anchor whom the New York Times once described as the “voice of Hispanic America,” as Breitbart News noted, revealed that she was saddened that many Latinos “are buying some of these arguments against undocumented immigrants” that Trump has been making. “And it’s very sad to see that our own people, who are immigrants themselves, are attacking these immigrants that are trying to come in, knowing themselves how difficult the situation is in a lot of these Latin American countries,” Salinas said then. “And, you know, they’re buying it, and some people, just like some other Trump supporters, are saying, well, you know, so what if he tells lies, as long as we have lower unemployment among the Latino community.” Trump, who got more support among Latinos in 2016 than Mitt Romney did in 2012 when Trump received 29% of the Latino vote, has often pointed out that illegal immigration hurts Latino workers and illegal immigrant criminals victimize Hispanics who are in the country legally. In the 2018 midterm elections, AP’s VoteCast data, exit polls, and other surveys found that Republicans received about a third of the Latino vote even though the mainstream media for two years painted Trump as an anti-Latino “racist.” Marquez said that though a majority of Latinos disapprove of Trump and his border politics, pro-Trump Latinos believe there is enough support among the community to get Trump re-elected in 2020. Media Politics Border Wall Donald Trump latino vote