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President-elect Donald Trump's first administration repeatedly sought to make deep cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development's budget. Those plans never passed Congress. But many housing and anti-poverty advocates think this time will be different.

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  • Politics

Trump names former Texas state Rep. Scott Turner to lead Housing and Urban Development

HUD is bracing for possible budget cuts, something the first Trump administration proposed but was unable to get through Congress. Other changes could restrict who gets rental aid.

November 22, 2024
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By:
  • Jennifer Ludden
Gina Palmer, owner of She Salon, is flanked by Senator Jon Ossoff (right) and Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, spoke of having to watch many of her friends close their small businesses during the Trump administration. “I have seen my friends close their businesses because they were struggling to get by,” Palmer said. “Because of the Biden-Harris administration we are making a comeback.” Photo by Donnell Suggs/The Atlanta Voice

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Biden and Trump surrogates set sights on the Black vote in Georgia

With the 2024 presidential election just a little more than four months away, surrogates for both the Biden-Harris administration and for former United States President Donald J. Trump are hitting the campaign trails throughout Georgia. 

June 27, 2024
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  • Donnell Suggs
Ben Carson, here in June, posted about his recovery from COVID-19 on Facebook on Friday.

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Ben Carson Says He Was 'Desperately Ill' With The Coronavirus

The secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development says in a Facebook post that he credits monoclonal antibody treatments with helping him recover from COVID-19.

November 20, 2020
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  • Dustin Jones
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson speaks in September in Atlanta. Carson is the latest Trump administration official to test positive for the coronavirus.

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  • Politics

Key Trump Contacts Ben Carson And David Bossie Test Positive For Coronavirus

The news comes after White House chief of staff Mark Meadows also tested positive. Bossie had been coordinating events as part of the Trump campaign's legal fight to contest the election.

November 09, 2020
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  • Scott Neuman and
  • Laurel Wamsley

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On Second Thought For Wednesday, July 31, 2019

A stretch of I-85 in southwest Georgia is a proving ground for technologies that could make such roadways ecologically sustainable. Allie Kelly,...

July 31, 2019
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  • Virginia Prescott ,
  • Emilia Brock ,
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U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson spoke with GPB's Ross Terrell about solutions to affordable housing and recent Trump tweets.

Ben Carson Talks Affordable Housing, Trump's Tweets

Federal officials held a two-day conference in Atlanta on Emerging Strategies to Affordable Housing, where U.S. Department of Housing and Urban...

July 29, 2019
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  • Ross Terrell

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