Ben Carson Wants to Make HUD Housing Uncomfortable for the People Who Live There

May 4th, 2017

Awake Goy

Ben Carson Wants to Make HUD Housing Uncomfortable for the People Who Live There

Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Host of Hardline Radio Show

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Ben Carson told the New York Times that he doesn’t want poor people to get too “comfortable” in their government subsidized housing.

While visiting in Ohio, Carson took a tour of government housing complexes and took an interest in amenities residents are given. He told the paper that he does not equate compassion for the poor with providing “a comfortable setting that would make somebody want to say: ‘I’ll just stay here. They will take care of me.’”

Alzene Munnerlyn, a resident at the development Carson visited, said his visit “was staged” because it all happened “so fast”.

Munnerlyn complained about Carson’s visit, saying: “There needs to be a forum where you can just sit and talk with him, and he could ask you how you feel and then you could express yourself.”

This obsession with any comforts low-income families who live in HUD house receive overshadowed Carson’s interest in funding for these projects.

Carson explained: “We have some people who are mentally ill. We have some elderly and disabled people. We can’t expect in many cases those people to do a great deal to take care of themselves. There is another group of people who are able-bodied individuals, and I think we do those people a great disservice when we simply maintain them.”

When asked about financial support, Carson insisted that he was more interested in incentivizing “those who help themselves” than assisting the 2.2 million families who are economically distressed.

With the average HUD housing family income at an annual of $13,726, Carson’s perspective would make it even more difficult for them to secure a place to live would not help in changing their situation.

Among Carson’s concepts for helping low-income families, he suggested that HUD could contract developers to hire them for construction projects.