Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Just Convinced Ben Carson That HUD's Drug Policies Should Be Changed
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/05/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ben-carson-hud-evictions/
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Just Convinced Ben Carson That HUDs Drug Policies Should Be Changed
Carson seems to agree that public housing tenants shouldnt be automatically evicted if their guests break the law.
Nathalie Baptiste
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday accomplished a rare feat for a Democratshe appeared to convince a Trump administration official that federal policy should be changed. Specifically the firebrand congresswoman from New York got Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson to agree that his departments drug and crime policies should be reformed.
During a House Financial Services Committee hearing, Ocasio-Cortez used her time to ask Carson about HUDs stringent crime policies that could lead to public housing tenants being evicted.
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Would you support being able to move some of these policies over to a more holistic review? she asked. You yourself asked for a case-by-case consideration. Should that case-by-case consideration be codified in federal law instead of having blanket, one-strike or no-fault policies?
Carsons answer suggested he would indeed by open to supporting such a change. Im always in favor of more flexibility, he said.
Im happy to hear that, Ocasio-Cortez said. Moments later, she noted she was introducing housing legislation that would include those reforms.