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Well-Worth Reading

  • Aug 23, 2017
  • 1 min read

This is a great article from New York magazine in collaboration with the excellent ProPublica -- a deeply researched and detailed look at the utter emptiness of HUD under the direction of Ben Carson.  (I was going to say, "under the leadership of..." but having read the article, I can't really use that phrase.



The author is Alec McGillis who spent months diving into HUD before Carson officially took over and a Trump official oversaw running things and also following Carson around, to the point of drawing the concern and disdain of his handlers.



It's very long, but immensely readable, told as much as an unfolding story as a piece of rich journalism.



You can find it here.

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