Perverse: America's HUD Secretary Ben Carson Unabashedly States That Public Housing Is Too Good for Poor People

As secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson has been traveling throughout the U.S. for a number of weeks on a listening tour for low-income citizens relying on the government for assistance. Only, to some, the tour was more of a photo-op than an integral conversation with a powerful government official.

“It was staged. It was so fast,” said 87-year-old Alzene Munnerlyn, according to the New York Times....
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