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The Intercept
March 23, 2018
The Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity at the Department of Housing and Urban Development was designed to confront discrimination, segregation, ... “The National Fair Housing Alliance has reached out to HUD about accommodation verification, but HUD has declined, thus far, to confer with usÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 22, 2018
Claudia Tenney of New York indicated the “deep state” was behind the purchase of a $31,000 dining room set at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Tenney was asked about the pricey furniture during a radio interview Wednesday with WUTQ's “Talk of the Town” and defended BenÃâà...
Novogradac Company LLP
March 22, 2018
A $1.3 trillion fiscal year (FY) 2018 omnibus spending bill passed by the House today would increase the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) budget by $4.7 billion–nearly 10 percent. The legislation would also extend the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) by four years untilÃâà...
CBS News
March 14, 2018
Internal Department of Housing and Urban Development emails obtained by the watchdog group American Oversight reveal pressure within the agency to spend beyond the $5,000 statutory limit on HUD Secretary Ben Carson's office furnishings. Carson is under fire after his office ordered an expensiveÃâà...
HousingWire
March 7, 2018
A Department of Housing and Urban Development employee accused HUD Secretary Ben Carson of running a “witch-hunt” and a “smear campaign” against ... In an email sent to Carson earlier this week, Marcus Smallwood, who is HUD's director of records and information management within the office ofÃâà...
New York Times
March 6, 2018
WASHINGTON — A senior administrator at the Department of Housing and Urban Development accused department officials on Tuesday of conducting a “witch hunt” against whistle-blowers and demanded that Ben Carson, the HUD secretary, acknowledge that his wife had pressured officials to approveÃâà...
New York Times
March 1, 2018
WASHINGTON — Ben Carson, the secretary of housing and urban development, is attempting to cancel a $31,000 order for a customized hardwood dining room ... Mr. Gowdy is also requesting a formal response to an ethics complaint to the federal Office of Special Counsel, made by HUD's former chief ofÃâà...
New York Times
February 28, 2018
WASHINGTON — 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 ... About a month before it was ordered, Helen G. Foster, a former top HUD official, filed a complaint with the Office of Special Counsel, a federalÃâà...
Hip-Hop Wired
December 31, 1999
All of this got on the radar of congressional officials after a former top HUD employee alerted the Office of Special Counsel that Mrs. Carson asked the employee for a financial workaround past the $5,000 limit alotted for office redecoration. We've managed to collect some hilarious responses to the news viaÃâà...
FedScoop
December 31, 1999
The Department of Housing and Urban Development will be on the hunt for a new CIO after Johnson Joy abruptly stepped down from the job Tuesday morning. A HUD spokesman confirmed to FedScoop that Joy, who assumed the role in June 2017, had offered his resignation to Secretary Ben Carson andÃâà...