Well then we will have Ben Carson in charge of HUD for four more years.
About two years ago the HUD person said she could no long do the training with us. Through back channels I found out that the HUD offices in Connecticut were told to stop training on LGBTQ+ issues and that all funding to integrate shelters is being cut.
Just remember this when you vote in November do you want Ben Carson Secretary of HUD for another four years?
Ben Carson gets into testy exchange with Democratic lawmaker over transgender access to homeless sheltersI was doing training at homeless shelters with two other non-profits and HUD, we would do a PowerPoint presentation to the staff of homeless shelters. I would do the cultural competency portion, one would talk about the law, another would talk about how to make the shelter trans friendly like putting up shower curtains, and the HUD person talked about the resources to help with making the shelter trans friendly. The HUD person would talk about how to get funding to put up shower curtains.
By Devan Cole, CNN
March 05, 2020
Washington (CNN)Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson got into a testy exchange Wednesday with a Democratic lawmaker who pressed him on the department's position on access to homeless shelters for transgender people, with the lawmaker appearing to accuse the secretary of enabling discrimination at facilities.
The dust-up came during a House Appropriations Committee hearing in which Democratic Rep. Mike Quigley of Illinois asked Carson about a rule proposed by HUD last year that would allow federally funded homeless shelters that have single-sex facilities or areas separated by sex -- like bathrooms and sleeping quarters -- to establish policy that could result in transgender people being barred or mistreated.
During Wednesday's hearing, Quigley argued Carson was saying "that if someone doesn't like someone else in that shelter, for whatever reasons, that you can allow discrimination against those people."
"No, what I'm saying is we have to take everybody's feelings into consideration. You can't just select a group and say that their feelings trump everyone else's groups," the secretary replied.
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Carson told Quigley during Wednesday's hearing that he wants "everybody to be taken care of," and later asked the congressman, who he said was "passionate" about the issue, to provide a "solution."
"Not as passionate as the people on the street," Quigley shot back. "The law says you can't discriminate. That's my solution."
About two years ago the HUD person said she could no long do the training with us. Through back channels I found out that the HUD offices in Connecticut were told to stop training on LGBTQ+ issues and that all funding to integrate shelters is being cut.
"First of all, I didn't describe transgender women that way," Carson said during the hearing. He claimed that he "was relating a story that a women's group told me about big, hairy men -- who are not transgender women, by the way -- coming into your facility and having to be accepted because of the rules that were in place."You know when you are homeless and wondering if you will have a roof over your head you do not have the money to remove your beard.
Just remember this when you vote in November do you want Ben Carson Secretary of HUD for another four years?
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