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I should add that a while back I criticized a quote in a media piece from a senior official at one of these nonprofts, which praised Scott Turner as new HUD secretary. Kowtowing to the new order will apparently not save you...

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If you're a HUD employee or recently laid off HUD worker you can reach out to me securely on Signal from a non work device, my username is Roshan.150

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Hell yeah!

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You may have heard—awful things are afoot at HUD. But people everywhere are refusing to toe the line while the Musk regime threatens the workers keeping this understaffed & underfunded agency running.

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Headlines from today: Vice President Vance Accuses European Leaders of Censoring Free Speech White House Bars Associated Press From Spaces Like Oval Office and Air Force One

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Amid a catastrophic housing and homelessness crisis—with seven evictions filed every minute and rent now unaffordable for a record half of all U.S. tenants—what was Scott Turner’s first act as HUD Secretary? To make it easier for federally funded shelters to turn trans people away.

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"Our party must act swiftly. There’s no time for hesitation. Or delay. Or dawdling. Or dragging our feet. Or indecision. Or dilly-dallying. Or stalling. Or hemming and hawing. Or equivocation. Or grandstanding. Or mincing words. Or slow-walking. Or procrastinating."

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The CFPB fought against junk fees & shady banking practices. Now, Trump and Musk have teamed up to shut it down at the expense of everyday consumers. Bank stocks may rise, but at what cost? Who benefits when watchdogs disappear? #DefendCFPB www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/b...

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Give me my bloody sword to swing

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What a rancid bitch move

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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” -Anne Frank www.democracynow.org/2025/2/6/hea...

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Call your Republican reps about this shit. If you have a regional accent, make the most of it. Tell them you didn't vote to screwed over like this, and you're gonna hold them accountable for it if they don't fix it. reps.fyi

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Dammit

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Several updates on HUD: major loses of career staff at PIH. These folks have served Rep & Dem admins and their expertise is very difficult to replace. 🧵

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@schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov BECAUSE IT IS. Go do your damn jobs and stop this!

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@schiff.senate.gov Your DC VM is still full and you have no number I can find here in CA. As a constituent I am begging you to Do. Your. Job. Stop voting for the clearly unqualified nominees! You sound like some resistance grifter on social media - go and raise hell and grind every possible gear!

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Do you know a senator you can call

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apparently a bunch of LA City Councilmembers are saying on the record that philanthropy is the main way to support Angelenos impacted by the fires. and while we have many differences, I think all of us here at Housing Bluesky can and should laugh very heartily at them for saying something that dumb

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January 1973: Richard Nixon froze the funding for the nation's subsidized housing programs--even before HUD offered any justification for doing so. It came in the aftermath of publicized scandals involving the FHA, mortgage bankers and realtors. Congress responded with the Impoundment Control Act:

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post inauguration i'm seeing a fresh wave of liberals blaming the election outcome on any marginalized community they can imagine and all i can say is that shit is evil, evil lives inside your heart

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@erinbiba.bsky.social Thank you for making me think harder and dig deeper into my assumptions.

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The Underpants Gnome presidency.

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ICYMI I wrote a zine on equity change-making for transit agency insiders in 2022 in print only. Yesterday I released a digital version to support folks working for change inside government right now! laurelpagetseekins.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

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If I could hand one directive to the Democratic Party for the next four years, it would be this: People will vote for you if you fight, even if you lose. People will not vote for you if you do not fight.

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Work requirements don’t work. Unless, ‘make more people homeless’ is the goal. It’s not just a ‘solution’ in search of a problem, it’s a policy aimed at a racist, classist myth. All it does is add barriers and paperwork to people getting housing help. So much for ‘efficiency’ I guess.

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Zoning reform! Everyone’s bingo card free space. Your weekly reminder that restrictive zoning laws were absolutely a tool of racial segregation in housing. But fixing that means thinking about people who live in housing, not just buildings. www.allianceforhousingjustice.org/equitable-zo...

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Senator Loomis thinks we should go back to interest only and balloon loans! I think of myself as pretty cynical, but goooood lord. Toxic loans that led directly to the mortgage crisis are really not the answer.

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Thanks to Sen. Kim for a question about ‘hey maybe the market won’t actually build the kind of housing we need?” Lot more of that, and louder please.

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Also super fun is them saying ‘paying workers and keeping everything from flooding or burning down’ is a barrier to housing. No, they’re a barrier to corporate profits. That’s not the same thing.

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Hey Senators! Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing is the law! As fun as it is for you to say “DEI” as a slur over and over without having any idea what it means, discrimination is illegal and it’s also bad. FFS

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Lot of talk about regulation driving the housing crisis in this hearing. What are they talking about? Living wages Climate resilience Safe construction They’re not talking about permitting reform, guys.

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