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The Trump administration has just announced plans to sell the headquarters of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), a brutalist architectural monstrosity. Secretary Scott Turner admits that HUD’s headquarters is “known as the ugliest DC building”
The Trump administration is also trying to finish half of the HUD staff and the programs to defuse that they have bothered the United States since the launch of the great society of Lyndon Johnson.
Andrew Cuomo, former governor of New York and the last secretary of Hud de Bill Clinton, admitted in 1998 that Hud had been “the child poster for the failed government.” In 1976, the president of the Council of the City of Detroit (and the future American senator) Carl Levin denounced the agency as “Hurricane Hud” for devastating the motor city with reckless subsidized mortgages with stratospheric breach rates.
The headquarters of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in Washington, DC, on March 3, 2025. (Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
Vice President Al Gore denounced HUD public housing projects in 1996: “These crimes infested monuments to a failed policy are killing the neighborhoods around the issue.” In 2006, the voice of the left -wing village labeled HUD as the worst owner of the United States.
HUD puts on sale the building of the average headquarters occupied in DC
Gross negligence has always been HUD’s standard operating procedure. In 2011, The Washington Post Compiled hundreds of satellite images to test the largest housing construction program was a “dysfunctional system that offers billions of dollars to local housing agencies with few rules, safeguards or even a reliable way to track projects.”
Hud said they have no idea that billions of dollars or their subsidies had been misuse and ignored a flood of complaints from people whose neighborhoods were devastated. HUD left a “trace of failed developments in every corner of the country. The fields where the apartment complexes are promised are empty and careless,” said the post.
Andrew Cuomo, Bill Clinton’s last secretary of Hud, admitted in 1998 that Hud had been “the child poster for the failed government.” (AP Photo/Richard Drew, Archive)
Duration of the 1990s, I spent many days at Hud headquarters investigating Boondaggles. HUD was exaggerated with the most depressed employees he would know outside a group therapy session in a city prison. After writing an article from the Wall Street Journal headed “The Clinton Demolition Ball for the Suburbs”, the secretary of Hud, Henry Cisneros, denounced me for “unfortunate stereotypes of assisted residents.”
But not as unfortunate as the waves of underground violent crime throughout the country. In the first half of 2016, at least 30 people were killed in the residences of section 8 in Chicago, along with another 7,000 crimes reported.
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In Houston, the male receptors in Section 8 are twice as probabilities to commit violent crimes that people with a history and similar income who did not receive housing coupons, according to a study by the University of Texas A&M. A study funded by HUD found that the relocations of section 8 “tripled the rate of judges for real estate crimes” among children who moved to new places.
Vice President Al Gore denounced HUD public housing projects in 1996: “These crimes infested monuments to a failed policy are killing the neighborhoods around the issue.” (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)
Russell Vought, Trump’s administration and budget office” Section 8 ridiculed because “it brings crime, decreased the values of the properties and results in subsidized dependence and irresponsibility.” The Trump administration is expected to propose severe cuts in the rental subsidies for next year’s budget.
When Congress created HUD in 1965, social justice would be supposed to US cities. But Sandra Thompson, head of the Federal Finance Agency for Biden, declared before Congress in 2022 that the racial gap of useful life “is higher today than the fair housing law [of 1968] It was approved. ”
The Biden administration sought to “solve” that problem with a new mandate to punish mortgage borrowers with good credit ratings by forcing them to subsidize borrowers with unstable records of paying their invoices. But “No Deadbeats Left Behind” is a poor Maxce for mortgage policies.
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Scott Turner appears before the Senate before his confirmation vote to serve as HUD secretary. (Getty images)
The Secretary Turner is ready to leave HUD’s headquarters, stating that the agencies focus is on “creating a workplace that reflects the values of efficiency, responsibility and purpose.” That 12 -story building needs half a billion dollars in “deferred and modernization maintenance expenses” and costs more than $ 50 million a year to operate despite being half empty even before Trump’s mass shots. Maintenance and modernization costs exceed the original cost of dollars adjusted to building inflation.
Hud hesitant headquarters could be much more valuable for a symbolic gesture than a real estate payment.
Donald Trump should take a page of the most dramatic housing intervention of the last 60 years. In 1954, St. Louis opened one of the largest public housing projects, with 33 high -rise apartment buildings. But the Pruitt-Iige project was soon fogged by crime and vandalism. The 1972 cinematographic images of the entire project that is being demolished should have been required in each kind of civic high school in the nation.
Manitators outside the headquarters of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, DC, on March 3, 2025. (Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg through Getty Images).
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A publicized demolition of the HUD headquarters would be to provide a more valuable lesson for Americans than any sale price that the hesitant building obtained. For 60 years, HUD reaped huge approvals from Congress, regardless of the ravages he sowed. Razing Hud would remind all federal agencies that failure has a consequence.
And see that the HUD headquarters would tear down to all those who want to drain the DC swamp and all the value or neighborhood of the house were ruined by HUD.
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