This op-ed from Donald Trump and @SecretaryCarson is exceedingly dishonest, filled with factual errors, distortions and lies. It is blatant and cynical fear-mongering, a cheap and harmful political ploy for votes.
.@SecretaryCarson says that building affordable apartments near single family homes is a “dystopian vision.” This is an abhorrent view from a HUD Secretary. With such disdain for HUD’s mission & the people HUD serves, he has no business “leading” the agency.
He calls efforts to abide by the Fair Hsg Act & further fair housing “social engineering,” once again displaying his willful ignorance of the decades of deliberate federal policies that created - some might say “social engineered” - segregated communities.
His hypocrisy is shameless and cringeworthy - he denounces efforts to “abolish single-family zoning” when 2 years ago he was touting his efforts to “reduce onerous zoning regs” to increase affordable housing. Remember this tweet, Ben?
Their self-aggrandizing proclamation that they’ll “protect the suburbs & save the cities” is absurd, particularly as they lie about efforts to protect (in Trump’s case) or completely ignore (in Carson’s) tens of millions of renters at risk of eviction.
