#marcia fudge

[blackexcellence]

The U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Marcia Louise Fudge, has entered the room!

[aunti-christ-ine]

The Hatch Act only matters when the Dems are in office

[jacksoncurtisbehre]

3.45 FAR affordable apartments with underground farm increases urban density to reverse displacing gentrification while providing 73% of energy demands, conservatively, with helio-centric sustainable design. 103% of energy demands could be met with reasonably optimistic advances in technology. 

[goodblacknews]

(via NAACP to Host 2019 Women in Power Town Hall With Sen. Kamala Harris and Reps. Karen Bass, Lucy McBath and Marcia Fudge)

[democraticfuture]

Opposition to Pelosi slowly collapsing

Rep. Brian Higgins' support deals a setback to the group looking to oust the California Democrat.

Should we start taking bets on who’s going to fold next?

[seattleredandgreen]

What the Congressional Black Caucus Lost When It Won Power

The CBC’s campaign to stop Nina Turner from entering Congress reveals a lot about its priorities.

Leaving grassroots community organizing to join the system you used to protest never works out.  Look her in Seattle at Pramila Jayapal.  She went from running an immigrant rights non-profit and protesting ICE to funding ICE and towing her party's anti-immigrant line after her first election. "As the Reagan era neared its close, the group that had long presented itself as an agitator for the cause of everyday Black people around the world was starting to resemble something more recognizable: a professional organization dedicated to protecting Democratic incumbents, including white ones against Black challengers, and sustaining career advancement for its own members. Fast-forward 35 years, and the CBC is one of the pillars of the Democratic Establishment, a fundraising juggernaut with deep ties to corporate entities like Walmart and Altria (formerly Philip Morris, the biggest tobacco company in America) and a regular champion of party leaders, rather than a thorn in their side. Its individual members are by no means ideologically monolithic, though none of them are Republicans. Several of the newer ones — Ayanna Pressley, Jamal Bowman, Cori Bush — primaried CBC-backed incumbents. And contrary to popular narratives, there are enough left-leaning older members and right-leaning younger ones that internal rifts don’t map neatly onto generational or partisan divides. But in the absence of such uniformity, the trends that have moved the CBC from the margins of influence to its center help explain its willingness to ignore its own stated principles, especially when it comes to elections."

[seattleredandgreen]

What the Congressional Black Caucus Lost When It Won Power

The CBC’s campaign to stop Nina Turner from entering Congress reveals a lot about its priorities.

“Fast-forward 35 years, and the CBC is one of the pillars of the Democratic Establishment, a fundraising juggernaut with deep ties to corporate entities like Walmart and Altria (formerly Philip Morris, the biggest tobacco company in America) and a regular champion of party leaders, rather than a thorn in their side. Its individual members are by no means ideologically monolithic, though none of them are Republicans. Several of the newer ones — Ayanna Pressley, Jamal Bowman, Cori Bush — primaried CBC-backed incumbents. And contrary to popular narratives, there are enough left-leaning older members and right-leaning younger ones that internal rifts don’t map neatly onto generational or partisan divides.”

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Trump weakened fair housing protections. Biden is putting some teeth back in them

Laura Clawson at Daily Kos: 

The Biden administration has its hands full just undoing the damage of the Trump years, but it is doing the work. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is moving to roll back two key Trump-era housing discrimination policies, emphasis on discrimination. To do so, HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge is in the process of reinstating two Obama-era policies that fight discrimination—based on race, disability, and more.

A 2013 rule, gutted by Team Trump in 2019, allowed legal claims against mortgage lenders, developers, and insurers based on statistical evidence of disparate impact—disparate impact meaning that even if policies are not discriminatory on the surface, they harm certain protected groups. Under Trump, HUD made it much more difficult to bring such claims. The Trump-era policy “basically is saying that you have to prove your entire case when you file it. This is unheard of,” the National Fair Housing Alliance’s Lisa Rice said at the time. “This is just another attempt by the Trump administration to take away yet another civil-rights protection.”

The Obama rule, for instance, “allow[ed] people to bring legal action to stop policies that harm them, for example a landlord requiring tenants to work a certain number of hours a week, which on its face may not seem discriminatory but which reduces housing choice for protected groups, in this case people with disabilities who often work part time to accommodate their health needs.”

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A 2015 rule, gutted by Team Trump in 2020, required cities and towns to identify patterns of discrimination and then do something about it. Trump’s move against that requirement was part of his effort to win over white suburban women. “The Suburban Housewives of America must read this article,” he tweeted at the time. “Biden will destroy your neighborhood and your American Dream. I will preserve it, and make it even better!”