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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A while back I started a thread because I support Hillary Clinton and believe that Julian Castro is a great choice for VP, for today and for the future of our country.  You can check it out here:

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/495/487137.page#7825945

Often, people come on and make comments like this:

[quote]The San Antonio mayoralty is a figurehead position with no power. HUD is a pretty third tier cabinet job. Even the Secretary of Veterans Affairs has more clout. [/quote]

HUD or the Department of Housing and Urban Development is a Cabinet level agency with a $30 billion annual budget that was created in 1965 to address the issue of housing inequality.  Back in 1965, minorities faced discrimination when finding a place to live that is unimaginable today.  Even today, over $30 billion is expended to achieve the goal of fair housing policy and providing dignity and safety for millions of poor people.

Even with this important mission, there are those who can glibly say that it is a third tier agency that is inconsequential.

People who make these kinds of statements care nothing for the poor, the homeless, the weak and downtrodden in society.  Basically this attitude is in line with mainstream republican ideology.

Republicans are against fair housing, housing, feeding and providing healthcare for the poor, including children, the disabled and even veterans.

Republican ideology is disgraceful.

Julian Castro is Hispanic and hated by racists for who he is, not for what he stands more.

But furthermore, racists hate HUD, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps even if it means children go hungry (women, infants and children or WIC).

Republicans and racists are disgraceful.

And they live among us in DCUM.

:roll:  :roll:  :roll: [/quote]

I"m a liberal who supports single payer healthcare and a robust food security provision to help those in need but I don't think HUD is a great idea.

HUD could be run a lot cheaper if feds had bigger say in local zoning policy. That's what kills the housing market - hud doesn't help.

From Greater Greater Washington:

[quote]The mid-rise Paris that we know today was built not by a democracy, but by a mad emperor and his bulldozer-wielding prefect. As Office of Planning director Harriet Tregoning said in a recent WAMU interview, "Paris took their residential neighborhoods and made them essentially block after block of small apartment buildings."

"If we were to do that in our neighborhoods, we could accommodate easily 100 years' worth of residential growth," she added. [/quote]

If hud could regulate sfh vs. multi-family zoning over nimbys (many who are liberals in liberal cities) that would be more effective than throwing a piddly 30 billion on it.

I made the comment that hud sec is worse experience than his twin's experience being on HFAC and HASC. How is that being racist?

Am I racist for saying HUD is stupid (that wasn't my quote btw - the one that you used in your OP) but wanting to raze sfh in nw dc by fiat and put in parisian style 3-6 story multi-family flats with classic 5's or classic 6's inside? Do you realize how much supply would be increased, driving housing prices down and helping with racial integration?[/quote]

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