Ben Carson has accepted Donald Trump’s nomination as Secretary of Housing & Urban Development, leading to all sorts of personal attacks and dire predictions for the future of cities under his leadership. The main point of contention is Carson’s belief that the federal government should not get involved in most local issues, which ought to be supported by the fact that many federal urban programs have had disastrous results, particularly for blacks.
The Antiplanner’s friend, Samuel Staley, has some “early thoughts” on what Carson might do as secretary. Most of them sound good to me and I hope they aren’t wishful thinking.
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Too many of the department’s programs have become subsidies to special interest groups, many of which are non-profits that claim to promote affordable housing when they may actually do the opposite. Some HUD grants to cities for low-income housing seem more oriented to being green demonstration projects than providing affordable housing. Other programs provide direct subsidies to low-income people, which is probably more effective than grants to cities to build low-income housing, but at least some of those subsidies are captured by landlords rather than the people who need them.
Finally, at least some programs are social-engineering tools of the smart-growth movement, and those who deny this are either ignorant or trying to be deceptive. As someone who grew up in a Detroit ghetto (though not in subsidized housing), Ben Carson has a pretty good sense of these problems. Many have criticized Carson for calling federal desegregation programs “failed socialist experiments,” but it’s hard to defend those programs when they haven’t actually resulted in much, if any, desegregation.
What poor people need is not more subsidies but more opportunities. Progressive programs that make housing more expensive and make it difficult for low-income people to reach jobs should be terminated. Whether Ben Carson will do that is unknown, but–unlike many–he’s not likely to make things any worse.
I guess the next best thing to abolishing a department that shouldn’t exist is appointing someone who is totally unqualified to run it.
A large number of racists will attack Ben Carson unmercifully on his appointment. They won’t be called racists by the media because they are either Democrats, union leaders, media commenters, “non-profit” planners and the like.
No matter how they frame it, the basis of their arguments will be that Ben Carson is not really black because he doesn’t say what blacks are told to say by the white progressives who have controlled the ideology and funding of such programs.
And Trump is a racist because he appoints black people who are not approved by Hillary, Nancy et al.
You can call Trump a racist…….all you want.
He put a black man in charge of an agency that handled his affairs and subjected him to the standards and living conditions. I don’t think government is racist, but incompetence or apathy is just as bad as racism when you have to put people through it.
Racism is “Ni#%@r, you don’t deserve a nice house”
Incompetence is: “Sir, this housing meets all the governments quality standards, have a nice day”
Maybe Carson could concentrate on the UD part rather than the H part. While I’m loathe to suggest federal interference in what should be local matters, Carson could ask Congress to create enterprise zones in the economically worst parts of cities. A couple of years ago, Walmart put up a store on 47th & Cottage Grove in Chicago, a neighborhood known as Bronzeville which has a very low median income. Lots of city and/or state subsidies to get that store there but why couldn’t the federal government team up with local governments by creating enterprise zones for neighborhoods like these, slashing federal corporate income taxes for n number of years? Instead of the federal government concentrating on handing out rental housing vouchers, wouldn’t it make more sense to increase the number of employed people who can afford to rent or buy without subsidies?
Almost all Department Secretaries are not qualified to run an organization that large. Government Departments are larger than all but a handful of corporations, and they have no board of directors. Kudos to anyone who sees that ahead of time.