hud's continuing care, hud's assistance programs provide the main resources and incentivize those housing first approaches. this would grant new resources, authorize resources for housing choice vouchers, authorize funding for outreach to homeless people and better integrate affordable housing and health care activity. this bill recognizes the resources the federal government has to provide if our country is going to continue to make advances in reducing homelessness. now, l.a. has worked since its inception to provide assistance to homeless and housing provide providers. section 4 awards help nonprofit and housing community organizations further their affordable housing goals. one example, people assisting the homeless, path ventures used hud section 4 support to develop west carson villas. this development consists of 110 units, 55 which are reserved for formerly homeless residents. also provides financing for affordable housing development and we typically use low income housing tax credit equity. the housing credit is the nation's most important development financed subsidies for affo

however, the ig of hud in a letter sent to the secretary of hud said that the people in the governmentof puerto rico have complied with everything that was asked from them and yet of the 17 states and localities that get disaster relief fund puerto rico was the only one whose money was delayed. enough is enough. >> reclaiming my time. >> the time belongs to the cha chair. the gentleman has noticed his concerns and have been responded to. >> madam chair -- smack the gentle lady was referring to the agency and if you're concerned is about language unbecoming of a member you should address that to all of the members at any given time we have all had language that one could consider unbecoming. >> madam chair. madam chair at the accuse a cabinet secretary of personal corruption which is what the gentle lady did is not becoming of members of this committee. >> the gentleman is out of order. the gentleman from oklahoma mr. lucas is recognized for five minutes. >> secretary militant, let's return to treasuries plan that lays out several conditions to meet before ending the conservatorship. we

elaborate on how hud can eliminating those regulatory barriers? >> thank you. subject of great concern fours in. communities, manufactured housing accounts for about 20% of all the single spamly lot of the yet, a egulationes that have been in place treat manufactured housing as trailers and double-wides, in fact there, has been tremendous progress made with manufactured housing. i think at this stage of the in many cases would you not be able to distinguished housing from a trailer and they tend to be much more resilient. updating that needs to be done and we've a lot of effort on that and have made progress. t's an area where we can make progress with affordable housing because you're talking about cost considerably less than site bit homes. > for many it's an entry level housing opportunity. >> exactly. >> with that, madam chair, i back the balance of my time. >> thank you, gentleman from georgia, mr. scott is recognized for five minutes. director calabria, following 2008 financial crisis, the house financial services committee helped to enact i orms under do

me and the people at hud had a role in expanding the protections. it is a shame what the administration has done to roll them back. the comments that secretary carson made a couple weeks ago are shameful. when your housing secretary you're there to serve everybody. his comments made clear he's not able to serve everybody. he should resign because of that. he can't serve everybody. as president i would make sure not only that we appoint people including members of the lgbtq community to the cabinet to the white house staff. and other positions in the administration who are going to ensure we expand equal opportunity. we will strengthen protections and housing and employment and healthcare in every other context for members of the lgbtq community. thank you for the question. >> we'll bring in bonny. a physicist in the aerospace industry. >> the obama add mirs was the first to engage with by-sexual activists and educators in a round table discussion in 2013 and a follow up in 2016. we face unique challenges in healthcare and that have not been over com

so when his heart -- houses go back to hud, they cannot be resold because they been overvalued.hat is why hides housing reserve becomes so large. what they do is they start selling -- having open auctions for these houses, selling them for anywhere between one dollar and $100, which then invites speculators to come back into by the houses and begin the process all over again. even if hud wasn't responsible for all of these abandonment issues that are happening in the cities at this time, these actions certainly were not helpful. juan: i am also, there are some housing advocates, especially in the african-american and latino community, who have claimed for years there was a political biasse as well as a racial in federal housing policy. they point to the 1974i think community development act as specifically set out a goal of spatial d concentration of the inner city. in essence, because as you pointed out, the government was so worriried about riots and unrest in the inner-city that there was a political project to remove african-americans and latinos from the inner-city, in esse

according to hud, for housing to be affordable, tenants should not be spending more than 30% of their income on rent. more than half of novatto's low-income tenants spend 50% on housing. some are spending as much as 144% of their income on rent due to recent rent hikes. what's happening here is perfectly legal. hamilton was built in part with financing obtained through california's low-income housing tax program. levels are set by hud. >> the disparity between what you need to do to qualify as low-income compared to what the median income is for marin is huge were >> reporter: both john and theresa have been homeless before. the apartment was their haven. an affordable place to stay that pulled them out of homelessness. now they're worried they'll spend what should be their golden years working to stay off the street. >> i'll have to start looking for another place to live. i won't be able to afford it. it'll just be too much. >> i don't think that our representatives understand that the end result these days is that their seniors living on a fixed income in affordable housing project

zuckerberg, i have here hud's report. it clearly says that your platform allows advertisers to restrict certain users from viewing ads on your platform and you have even enabled the practice of red lining certain communities. what is your answer? i mean what was your response to hud? have you put things in practice to eliminate this? >> well, congressman, i think at the beginning of the discussion with hud and some of these groups that i just referenced, we entered into a settlement with the civil rights groups to create a new standard where we block that kind of targeting i think it's worth noting that the standard that we set is industry leading i don't think any of the other internet platforms restrict the kind of targeting that we do for these categories, but i think that doing so helps us uphold the principles around preventing discrimination, so i'm happy and supportive and glad that we're doing that >> thank you, mr. zuckerberg >> the gentleman from ohio, mr. stivers, is recognized fortes. >> thank you, madam chair

zuckerman, i have hud's report. it says you allow advertisers to restrict certain users and you have even enabled the practice of redlining certain communities. answer?your what was your response to hud? as you put things in practice to eliminate this. beginningberg: at the tothe discussion with hud, create a new standard where we blocked that kind of targeting. i don't think any of the other internet platforms restrict the kind of target for these categories. doing so helps us pull the principles around discrimination. i am supportive and glad that we are doing that. >> i appreciate you holding this hearing. good morning. i am doing ok. >> i understand. [laughter] i want to say i appreciate innovation. we need innovation in america and no innovation will be perfect. -- perfect. i want to let you clarify, if i want to advertise housing on facebook today, can i use age, sex, and zip code to target people today as we sit here? i believe the: answer is no. i just confirmed it with my team. those options are no longer i

yet the 2019 hud published fair market rent for a one-bedroom apartment in los angeles is $1,384 per month. the reality is, that rental costs are high and incomes are low. when less than 3% availability in rental units, success rate in finding a place to live has dropped to 53% for households with a voucher. this is especially heartbreakinging for individuals that have been in shelter or waited years on the wait list for a voucher, only to return the voucher or have it expire. happena's inability to utilize 100% of its vouchers is having a negative financial impact on the agency. the housing authority funds its program orangeses with federally provided administrative fees for each voucher. with the drop of voucher utilization from 100 to 93%, happena receives less administrative dollars. the loss of revenue is further compounded when only 79% of the determined fees required to properly administer the program are received due to a proration factor. while the focus of hr-1856 is on ending homelessness, it's important to support affordable housing for all who need it. homeless preventio

levels are set by hud. >> the disparity between what you needot the median incom te both john and theresa have been homeless before. the apartment was their haven. an affordable place to stay that pulled them out of homelessness. now they're worried they'll spend what should be their golden years working to stay off the street. >> i'll have to start looking for another place to live. i won't be able to afford it. it'll just be too much. >> i don't think that our representatives understand that the end result these days ishein athat fixed income in affordable housing projects are getting evicted and driven out right and left. >> reporter: another property is affordable housing access, they operate out of newport beach and did not respond to our quest for comments. after the rally, we heard from tenants adl to have a dialogue. >> it's hitting so many different levels of society. >> thank you. keep spending your ideas and stories to us. home x.at kpi m. >>> there are tens of thousands of people without power outside of the bay area. in nevada t perownt el dorado county as well. and it could

zuckerman, i have here hud's report. it clearly says that your platform allows advertisers to restrict certain users from viewing ads on your platform, and you have even enabled the practice of red lining certain communities. what is your answer? i mine, what was your response to hud? >> well -- >> have you put things in practice to eliminate this? >> well, congressman, i think at the beginning of the discussion with hud and some of these groups that i just referenced, we entered into a settlement with the separate -- with the civil rights groups to create a new standard where we block that kind of targeting. i think it is worth noting the standard we set is industry leading. i don't think any of the other internet platforms restrict the kind of targeting we do for these categories. i think that doing so helps us uphold the principles around preventing discrimination. i'm happy and supportive and glad we're doing that. >> thank you, mr. zuckerberg. >> the gentleman from ohio is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you,

in july our t-hud subcommittee held an oversight hearing of the f.a.a. where we questioned the acting deputy administrator and the associate administrator for aviation safety on the agency's review of the max aircraft as well as the agency's aircraft certification processes. since that time numerous recommendations have been issued by the national transportation safety board and the joint authorities technical review which consists of technical efforts from leading international aviation regulators. first and foremost it is imperative that both boeing and the f.a.a. admit the mistakes made with the max aircraft, remedy those serious errors in order to gain the public's trust in the aircraft again. just today boeing's c.e.o. testified before congress and admitted that boeing, quote, made mistakes and got some things wrong. end quote. yet we have -- we have yet to hear what specific changes the f.a.a. will require from boeing prior to bringing the max back into service and what long-term changes they will make to their aviation and aircraft certification p

back early in the administration when a hud certain hud official was calling me out of my name on socialng me miss piggy. and it was elijah congressman cummings who called secretary ben carson and told him stop it. secretary carson called me and it stopped. all because of elijah cummings. he said we can do better than that. we are better than that. and that's the kind of person he was. he was not into foolishness. he wanted to see in nation no matter politic come to its greater good. and he will be sorely missed. >> he will. thank you. >> amen. >> i appreciate it. thank you for sharing that. we'll be right back. ♪ performance comes in lots of flavors. there's the amped-up, over-tuned, feeding-frenzy-of sheet-metal-kind. and then there's performance that just leaves you feeling better as a result. that's the kind lincoln's about. ♪ ever since you brought me home, that day. i've been plotting to destroy you. sizing you up... calculating your every move. you think this is love? this is a billion years of tiger dna just ready to pounce. and if you have the wrong home insurance coverage, you

that developed in the late 60s and 70s, a couple of years ago this housing project paid off their hud loans. and then the board with zero residents put it on the mls to sell. and we actually found out because someone called us and said, hey, this housing development was for sale on the mls. so we actually moved fast to get it back into the city to get it back to make sure they weren't going to sell and jeopardize a lot of low-income african-americans. these tax credits will allow for new amenities and ada accessible units. further, no one will be displaced and the project will remany affordable forever. it is so important to stop the displacement of african-americans in san francisco. we need to keep fighting to keep people in place. we are losing and have lost too many families. by working collaboratively with our co-ops, our african-american community can stay and age gracefully in neighborhoods they have raised and nourished. our families, elders and youth will have a clean, accessible home for years to come. thank you. >> president yee: colleagues, can we take this same house, sam

the hud weather is back too. >>> i don't see anything for 16 days. as far as rain. you know, it's our turn for ridge city. temperatures will be a bow for a while. probably most of the week and also through in there will be high fire danger. more likely thursday. it is a fire weather watch for now. highs in the 80s. upper 80s almost 90. also above for a while. the city, 80 and 60. that is way above on the high and the low. not close to records but temperatures are 62 right now. tiburon, 64. 70 at the berkeley labs. one observation in the city is near 70. everything is in place fo

pushing for debate organizers to give more time to the issue of homelessness and last month, former hud secretary julian castro was in oakland talking about possible solutions and former texas congressman beto o'rourke toward homeless camps in los angeles. they call for rehabilitation ti highlighting this very serious problem in the bay area of homelessness. our series on the crisis colater businesses around the bay and at 8:00, a look at the controversial laws that reduced the problem. >>> democratic candidate elizabeth warren steps up her calls to split up big tech companies including facebook and she takes aim at the social media site for refusing to fact-check political ads and to make her point, she is running a new ad saying, breaking news -- mark zuckerberg and facebook just endorsed at donald trump for reelection and later in the ad she points out that isn't true. she accuses facebook of allowing candidates to deliberately lie to voters and facebook refused to remove a misleading ad from the trump campaign targeting joe biden and facebook said companies should not police politic

hud, the department of housing and urban development, lost about 80% of its budget authority since 1978 and that actually corresponds with the rise of this modern day homelessss. if you go back and look at the great depression when there was over 2 million people who were experiencing homelessness in the united states and eventually that number was down to below 200,000, that was due to federal investments in affordable housing. if you just took a fraction of the department of defense budget and invested that in housing and gave everybody who is living below -- at or below rty a section 8 or now it's called a housing choice voucher where they could pay 30% of their income to rent, it would infuse tens of billions of dollars into the u.s. economy. i am sure the housing market would respond to that and we would be able to go back to how things were in the '50s and '60s in which the federal government was insuring that every american, every person living in america, had access to some type of affordable housing. i think that's the most important thing that we should be looking to and i thi

francisco an environmental violation for allowing needles to flow into the ocean came up in september when hud secretary ben carson visited san francisco to see the homeless problem, and

the hud weather is back too. >>> i don't see anything for 16 days. as far as rain. it just looks like, you know, it's our turn for ridge city. temperatures will be a bow for a while. probably most of the week and also through in there will be high fire danger. more likely thursday. it is a fire weather watch for now. highs in the 80s. upper 80s almost 90. also above for a while. the city, 80 and 60. that is way above on the high and the low. not close to records but temperatures are 62 right now. tiburon, 64. 70 at the berkeley labs. one observation in the city is near 70. everything is in place for high fire danger again as we get that offshore breeze. nothing we haven't dealt with be the wind is not that strong. it will pick up in a couple of days but it is out of the north and northeast and that's what we need with everything going up and over the ridge of high pressure. a northerly breeze, 15-20. 40s, 50s and 60s. warmest temperatures near the bay and the coast. i don't think anything will change through saturday so it looks like warm to hot. temperatures bumpin

now he is gone, and two of her daughters are in intensive careb her hud battling his grief, his anger directed at kurdishti sepasts in turkey and kuish militia in syria. "i call on god to bring th failure, to block their path, and not to forgive them." prayers are being said here now for baby muhammed. when hisamily came to turkey, they were hoping against hope tf findy. instead, they were caught up in another round of warfare. muhammad was killed inde his home. as he was mourned here, other children were being mourned in syria, including a 12-year-old boy killed by a turkish rocket attack yesterday. muhammad was taken away fora burial, fe cut short that leaves a broken family. back across the border in syria, a car bomb. out the attack, whed atried least three civilians. this is what many have feared and the kurds have predicted, i.s. taking advantagof the chaos caused by turkey's invasion. tonight we found more convoysnd ading for the border for an operation that has been widely condemned abroad but is strongly supported at home. orla guerin, bbc news, on the turkey-syria border. na

this battle has been brewing since hud secretary ben carson visited to check out the homeless problem after the president accused the city of dumping needles into the waterways. the mayor breed says that's not true. >>> the president lashed out during a joint news conference with finland's president and dodged a question about the now infamous call with ukraine's president. and when the reporter followed up, the president insisted the question can be directed at finland's leader. >> did you hear me? did you hear me? ask him a question. i've given you a long answer. ask this gentleman a question, don't be rude. >> also the state department inspector general asked for a private meeting. >>> for the first time in 40 years, hundreds of south bay county workers left their jobs to carry picket signs. that's made up of social workers, public defenders, care eyeing picket signs. 12,000 union workers aren't all striking at once. city services are moving forward. union workers have been without a contract since june so they voted to authorize a strike. they are stalled over working companies an

police don't look at hud look at all so you know what i know what hubble. when the police arrived early in the morning of march 30th they served a husband with a search warrant she and their 4 year old son were beside him in a fantasy land. want to lay. me again miller so i believe you know police search what i know. about busting out. my loan. in 16 that. you know not only will you not only be married to. me by law once a year. she climbs a sister then saw 2 policeman planting guns in the laundry. on long scenic. but i am in my own chilling but i am even in pain. but i think up in the polls but that being only you know what i mean. meanwhile her husband's body was hastily removed you know what and. i. was in long. last but the thing. about. it's more than 6 months since her husband was killed and police are yet to give her a copy of the search warrant but even if she had it man says she wouldn't take legal action until i only. stumbled on a mountain down but it. wasn't and that's something human rights worker clarissa singson admits makes it difficult to s

but i think i speak for all of my colleagues when i salute the t-hud and all the staff that made this legislation possible. with that, mr. president, i would yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from utah. mr. lee: mr. president, there's no doubt that we're blessed with beautiful, useful, and productive lands in our nation. and there's no doubt that some of them should be preserved as what they are, which happens to be national treasures. but, unfortunately, the federal government owns far too much land. it owns far more of these federal public lands than it should own and far more of these lands that it can possibly take care of. let's take a look at this map, for example. this shows in red the -- the land that's owned by the federal government in parts of the united states the federal government owns most of the land. this is certainly the case in my home state of utah where the federal government owns two-thirds of the land. notice, by the way, that in every state east of colorado, the federal government owns less than 15% of the land and in most states significantly

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will be in the so-called minibus as opposed to an omnibus, and i am pleased to see that transportation hud bill included. the bill the senators are working with is a pretty good bill, a billion and a half dollars below our bill partly because of the budget agreement did not quite meet the numbers we have been working with in the house, but also because of the problem that affects all these bills, the border wall items sitting in the middle of the budget allocation absorbing money from all these bills. that takes away from what we can do on infrastructure and makes it very hard to wrap this up. it will be a step forward as the house passes this -- senate passes this omnibus. you give us a good topline number, we call it four corners working on these bills, the ranking member, my colleague in the house, and susan collins and jack reed, the four of us will work out a great bill, but we need a reliable topline number. as long as the wall is sitting in the middle, that senate bill is not quite the last word, even from the senate. it is very hard to wrap anything up until we deal with that centr

we've also got c.j.s., ag, t-hud, all of these have significant impacts across the country. certainly in my home state we're looking at the c.j.s. bill to help keep our fisheries healthy, provide assistance for public safety programs. in the ag bill there is funding for much needed water infrastructure in our villages, helps expand our ever growing agricultural industries and of course t-hud, make sure that rural communities in my state can still receive things like essential air service, helping with our transportation system, help provide travel housing. there's so much good in all of these measures. i would commend them to members' consideration but would certainly urge passage of this very important appropriations bill and pleased to be here with my colleague, the good senator if new mexico. with that, mr. president, i yield. mr a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. a senator: from new mexico. thank you for the recognition. it's great to be here with senator murkowski. i rise to speak in support of fiscal year -- fiscal year 2020 inter

trans folks would not have any recourse under the law, the protest that ensued after that from hhs and hud and in health care. this is really huge, not just for the lgbtq+ but any worker who might not perform to someone else's idea of how they should express their gender. amy: you did something very unusual at the emmy awards. was chaseone strangio. i wanted to go to -- well, describe the scene and why you decided to do this. >> i noticed not a lot of people were talking about this case. it is the most consequential civil rights for lgbtq rights in my lifetime. no one was talking about it except chase and if you other people. i was nominated for my third emmy award this year and it was going to be -- i knew it would be a platform where a lot of people would be paying attention. i was like, we should take chase and talk about this case on the red carpet. edie parker designed my clutch. we went with a mission. amy: and we are showing the images. let's hear chase on the red carpet with laverne cox. >> october 8, everyone should be aware the administration is asking the supreme court to make i

and i think that just every five years, we submit to hud, our priorities for, you know, community development, block grant funding and there's a meeting here and there and then people don't see it and i think what i'm most excited about, besides that you guys involved the graduato greater community t this is available. i didn'can you talk about how tl be available and interactive and how folks in the community, doing housing, economic development, business development, whatever can access this and see the commonalities of the different efforts and resources that are spent and how they can use this? >> yes, thank you for that question. again, can i have this screen transferred over to the community? >> yes. >> thank you. so we are excited because we are able to develop in the process of defining our interactive website that basically is about the project. there will be a link up here to the draft of the report, the inveninventory and consideratio. so under the inventory -- so we were able to develop one example of an assessment. so each assessment will -- each of 22 assessments will have a who

. >> catherine hud is with the better busy bureau, she said red flags include if any of them ask forr name, address, social security number or account number and the best way to make sure you are talking to your bank, call the number on your call. >> whether it's a small community bank or credit union, or the biggest bank in the country, they can be scammed. so be careful. >> the government of japan has a problem. not enough babies. the population of japan is in rapid decline and that is bringing with it a host of problems and innovative solutions. ben tracy reports from tokyo. in the hill sides outside of tokyo, is the quaint village in japan this. house is empty and this man has what is the most important job in town. >> all of the homes the town is giving away. >> his binders lists the empty and abandoned homes and then he gets to give them away. >> if somebody wants to come live here, they potentially could get the house for free. >> he said yes. if you live in the house for 15 years we will give it to you for free. >>> that's a really good deal. >> yes, he said, we want people t

i'm ellen helms, i reside in san francisco at the jazz k tower and i'm now under the rad and hud and's mercy. mercy is not merc full. merciful. i have lived in the building for the last ten years and for one thing or another, i have watched them use $2 billion that was issued to be remodeled and to be brought up because it is the memorial building. it's also an aba building, which i apparently i'm the only one that knows about it because every time i ask any of the organizations in san francisco, seniors and disabled, adult services, i've spoken to miss stephanie and they've tried for my district two and i have gone to every level to ask for help. bottom line, ladies and gentlemen, i need to know when is the inspectors going to come in to inspect the building and when will we have a fire on the building safety? safety is the most important thing. and for most reason, maybe you've forgotten it, and they're able to take the money and pocket it and then the warrantty will be up and no one cares. i don't want any money. i want a place to live in comfort. asbestos is still there. the wate

dod, hhs, hud, national institutes of health to finally reach out and touch those american veterans who have reached desperation. plenty of americans take their lives every day. that number has been steady for over 100 years but the tragedy for us, those who take their lives contact the department of veterans affairs. we have to change that. we have 2 open efforts to combat suicide by using free market but opening up the aperture and providing support to charities, nongovernmental organizations and the locality of those we cannot touch, 60%, hits all areas, particularly in indian country, places that are hardest for us to touch but we need everyone's help and if we just focus on the last tragic act in that veteran's life this would be another federal report that serves as nothing more, if we don't have that national organization of mental health so why are we doing it? i didn't open with this but i will conclude with the reason we are here. in april 1775, 41 million americans, more than 1 million. our department was created in the midst of the most pestilential war in american history.

yes, he was the former secretary of hud, yes, he was the former mayor of san antonio, but right now he a position. so this is the perch that he needs and he knows that november is going to be supremely important to get onto that debate stage. that being said, if he is not able to get that momentum, don't count julian castro out. he's going to be a very important figure in the 2020 race, because of the latino vote. and even though he is not polling well in the general election polls, in the primary for democrats, he has a very strong relationship to the latino community across the country and he's going to be an integral surrogate for folks running for the democratic nomination and then running in the general. and if we think of texas as a swing state, especially important here. so it's at a fork in the road. i'm at 50/50 at this point. but he is going to be a presence that we continue to see until november of 2020. >> let's go to iowa and talk about the recent enthusiasm for amy klobuchar. one voter had the following thing to say, seeing her in person just closed the deal for me. she u

the project is funded through a variety of sources including a hud community development block grant. yes, that is federal money coming into san francisco. the california natural resources agency. and this commission was also extremely helpful in ensuring that we had the final piece of the puzzle in funding the playground. we're grateful. completion of the project is anticipated next year. moving west, we now arrive at the san francisco botanical garden. where its newly transformed celebration garden will showcase iconic plants from the collection and provide a venue for special events. this $1.7 million renovation was made possible through public-private partnership, including contributions from several donors and volunteers. what is not in my notes, but is true, this project was seed-funded -- pun intended -- with $75,000 from this commission in honor of the botanical garden 75th anniversary in 2015. it obviously took a little while to do the planning and raise the other money to get to the final total, but this project actually was planted by this commission. so another thank you t

and bringing together pod, hhs, hud, indian health service, national institutes to finally reach out and touch those american veterans who have reached the end of desperation. 20 americans take their lives every day. that number has been steady for well over 100 years but the tragedy for us is 60% of those who take their lives with the department of veterans affairs. we have to open our efforts to combat suicide by using the free market by opening up the aperture and providing support to charities, nongovernmental organizations and to the localities of those that we cannot touch. 60% we do not see. it hits all areas but particularly in indian country. places that are hardest for us to touch but we need everyone's help and if we just focus on the last tragic act in that veteran's life this will be another federal report that serves nothing more than a doorstop if we don't have that national conversation on mental health, addiction and homelessness. so why are we doing it? i didn't open up with this but i will conclude with the reason we are here since the first shots were fired in lex

house financial services committee talking about freddie may and fannie macr mack, reform, it diversed, hudretary, ben carson was attacked over holding up funds to puerto rico. >> where in federal law. you are empowered, to withheld money that was supposed to go to puerto rico. >> i can't give you chapter and verse, it does exist, congress has stayed t said to the secret. >> reclaiming my time. your staff pre previously claim. >> are you looking for answer or a sound bite. >> no, no. reporter: carson added he wanted inspector general report to see where the money was going before they ended up giving money out, puerto rico has access to 1.2 billion they can draw from. democrat blast treasury secretary mnuchin over russian sanctions then tr trying to getm everyone to commit in treasury department to follow -- up -- subpoena. >> i will assure you we'll follow the law. >> congressa -- as reviewed by your general counsel, we have received subpoenas we did not think were legal, i will refer them to my general counsel, they will be reviewed, i can assure you, we will always follow the law. report

90 employees that were impacted in the first round of restructuring, those primarily working in the hud house program. and the housing authority provided a pretty -- throughout a number of months, skills assessments, job fairs, job matches. we made over 60 city positions available to those 90 impacted housing authority employees, as well as the housing authority completed their negotiations with their labor entities which also provided a pretty robust severance package. so what we saw in that first group of 90 employees, we had a number of retirees, we had a number of employees that chose to take severance, and we had 25 employees that opted to take city positions. every housing employee who expressed interest in receiving one of those designated positions had the opportunity to get them. so we saw as of october 1, 25 people who are now working in various city departments and city agencies. so one of the reasons why the outside date of this charter amendment is several years from now is we expect there will be another phased restructuring when we get to the public housing piece. so we d

activists have been pushing to the issue of homelessness and last month, former hud secretary, julian castro, was in talking about possible solutions and medal toward homeless caaffordable housing. ktvl will spend plenty of time highlighting the serious homelessness problem in the bay area with our series on the crisis continuing later this morning at 7:00 and we will take a look at the effect of homelessness on businesses in the bay area and at 8:00, a look at the controversial laws aimed at easing and reducing the problem. >>> democratic candidate elizabeth warren is stepping up her calls to split off big tech companies including facebook. she takes aim at facebook for refusing to fact check political ads and to make her point, she is running a new and that's is breaking news, mark zuckerberg and donald trump for reelection and she later pointed out it wasn't true and accuses facebook of allowing candidates to deliberately lied to voters. facebook refused to remove a misleading ad targeting joe biden and facebook said that social media shouldn't police speeches. >>> the corporate ac

zuckerman, i have here hud's report. it clearly says that your platform allows advertisers to restrict certain users from viewing ads on your platform, and you have even enabled the practice of red lining certain communities. what is your answer? i mine, what was your response to hud? >> well -- >> have you put things in practice to eliminate this? >> well, congressman, i think at the beginning of the discussion with hud and some of these groups that i just referenced, we entered into a settlement with the separate -- with the civil rights groups to create a new standard where we block that kind of targeting. i think it is worth noting the standard we set is industry leading. i don't think any of the other internet platforms restrict the kind of targeting we do for these categories. i think that doing so helps us uphold the principles around preventing discrimination. i'm happy and supportive and glad we're doing that. >> thank you, mr. zuckerberg. >> the gentleman from ohio is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you,

listen to this exchange. >> where in federal law you are empowered, hud is empowered to withhold moneyrse but it does exist. congress has specifically said to the secretary you may not -- >> secretary carson, reclaiming my time, since you are not going to answer my question. >> seemed like an answer to me. >> reclaiming my time. your staff previously claimed -- >> are you looking for an answer or a sound bite? reporter: secretary carson went on to say this would be the single largest payout to any territory that hud has ever made. now, he says puerto rico already has access to $1.2 billion so it's not like they are withholding all the money. $200,000 has only been drawn off of that. again, this hearing has digressed into a number of different avenues. also talking about libra. one quick thing, financial -- or treasury secretary steve mnuchin said treasury told facebook in a letter that libra was being launched prematurely. so a lot going on. stuart: yes, there is. i'm glad you brought us the fireworks there. what do you want, an answer or sound bite. good one. zinger from the housing s

think of the changes at hud that directly impacts so many people in the african-american community., the president may go up in 2016, vote for me, what do you have to lose? the answer is a lot, sir. >> you are right about that. >> up next, echoes of ukraine. president trump's first va secretary says he was undermined by political appointees running back channel to the white house. we'll be speaking to david schultz and remembering the legacy. america says good-bye to elijah cummings. you are watching "velshi & ruhle," on msnbc. hing "velshi & ruhle," on msnbc just scan the sensor with your reader, iphone or android and manage your diabetes. with the freestyle libre 14 day system, a continuous glucose monitor, you can check your glucose levels any time, without fingersticks. ask your doctor to write a prescription for the freestyle libre 14 day system. you can do it without fingersticks. learn more at freestylelibre.us at humana, we believe your healthcare should evolve with you. and part of that evolution means choosing the right medicare plan for you. humana can help. with original