At
NYU, HUD's
Castro Speaks
Lofty,
"Whether
Through
Specific Goals
or Not"
By Matthew R.
Lee
NEW YORK,
November 16 --
When the US
Housing and
Urban
Development
Secretary
Julian Castro
held “an
intimate
speaking
engagement” at
NYU on
November 14,
it was
according to
HUD to “allow
economists,
housing
industry and
policy
experts, and
distinguished
NYU faculty
and staff to
hear directly
from Secretary
Castro about
our nation’s
rebounding
housing
market.” There
was an area
marked
“Reserved for
Press,” and
that where
Inner City
Press went.
When
after the speech
it came time
for Q&A,
Inner City
Press asked
Castro for his
view of the US
Affordable
Housing Goals,
whether they
can continue
to perform
their function
if the
conservatorship
of Fannie Mae
and Freddie
Mac continue.
Video
here.
In his
response,
Castro
referred to
folks of
modest means,
and to lending
to people of
color -- but
he said,
“whether
through the
use of
specific goals
or not.” Many
working on
this issue,
such as NCRC,
wonder what
this says
about his and
his
prospective
partner's
commitment to
the Affordable
Housing Goals.
We'll have
more on this.
On November 14
the Democratic
Party debate
in Des Moines
was supposed
to be
primarily
about the
economy. But
then the night
before, 129
people were
killed in
terrorist
attacks in
Paris. So CBS'
John Dickerson
began with the
issue, if the
Obama
Administration
(and Hillary
Clinton who
was a part of
it)
underestimated
ISIS.
Bernie
Sanders
tracked ISIS
back to the US
invasion of
Iraq; Hillary
Clinton
emphasized
that extremism
existed before
that invasion,
citing the
bombing of US
Marines in
Beirut under
Reagan, the
attack on US
embassies in
African under
“my husband.”
Sanders
said he is not
a fan of
regime change,
rattling off
Iran, Chile /
Allende and
Guatemala.
Martin
O'Malley said
the US should
not be roving
the world
looking for
dictators to
topple.
Previously, he
wrote that the
UN should pay
victims for
bringing
cholera to
Haiti; there
was nothing
even near that
in the foreign
policy opening
of the Des
Moines debate.
Somehow, the
airstrikes on
and chaos in
Yemen was not
even mentioned
in the
segment. Then
it cut to the
economy, and
one wondered
how Goldman
Sachs, for
example, would
come up.
Update: Bernie
Sanders
brought up
Goldman Sachs,
as dominating;
Hillary
Clinton again
deflected
calls to
reinstate the
Glass Steagall
Act by
referring to
her plan for
non-banks.
Does that no
longer include
Goldman
Sachs?
Back on
October 13
when the
then-five
Democratic
Party
candidates for
President
debated on CNN
from Nevada,
they crossed
swords on bank
regulation and
Edward
Snowden, less
so on foreign
policy. Near
the end,
Hillary
Clinton said
she was proud
“the Iranians”
don't like
her; Bernie
Sanders, that
Wall Street
doesn't like
him.
Back in
August amid
debate about
Jorge Ramos of
Univision and
Fusion being
ejected from
Donald Trump's
press
conference in
Iowa, then
allowed back
in to ask
questions,
from the
United Nations
the comparison
is inevitable
to UN
Peacekeeping
boss Herve
Ladsous.
Ladsous
who after
openly
refusing to
answer any
questions from
Inner City
Press about
rapes in DR
Congo, Darfur
and the
Central
African
Republic used
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
guards to eject
the Press from
a supposedly
open meeting,
here.
On
August 26, as
Ramos was
interviewed by
Megyn Kelly on
FOX, over on
CNN that
network
congratulated
itself on not
celebrating
shooters, as
it devoted
hours to such
coverage, of
Vester Lee
Flanagan a/k/a
Bryce Williams
killing TV
journalists
Alison Parker
and Adam Ward.
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