Thread by @maziehirono

Everyone deserves to have a place to call home. But with Ben Carson in charge? Our marginalized communities will continue to struggle to keep a roof over their heads. We are in an affordable housing crisis and this administration is providing no solutions. #OurHomesOurVoices

Just one day after telling the House that he had no plans in regards to transgender protections, HUD issued a rule allowing shelters to deny people admission on religious grounds or force transgender women to share bathrooms and sleeping quarters with men. #WontBeErased

Carson's own team sought to TRIPLE the min. rent paid by families receiving housing assistance, making it easier for authorities to impose stricter work requirements on those receiving benefits. Who's most affected? Single mothers. It would put nearly 1 million children at risk.

Last year, Ben Carson told fair-housing advocates that he was suspending a rule that mandated that communities fix long-standing patterns of segregation including that cities no longer have to submit plans to address historical housing discrimination to receive HUD funds.

Trump's budget request? It eliminates $34 million from housing for the elderly. It reduces funding by $27 million for those with disabilities. At those levels, the budget doesn't even provide funds to renew existing contracts.

Carson recently proposed terminating housing benefits for families with mixed immigration status. By HUD's own estimate, 55,000 children would be evicted and displaced at the height of our affordable housing crisis. #KeepFamiliesTogether

Affordable housing is already enough of a burden in high cost of living states like Hawaii and across the nation. Instead of creating more barriers, we should all be working together to ensure safe, affordable housing is available to every American.