these are discussions that we have been in with hud. we have we are and have been doing the work that has been required of us by head around all of this work and it is related solely to sunnydale in potrero and the mass transition of that property from public housing to project based vouchers and we have our hands on the pulse with hud on this work and with our contractors as well. >> yet those two findings we are working closely with b and cvro2 contractors so we have a corrective action plan that we basically added as a response to these two findings and we've seen those progress. two in terms of an inspection abatement and making sure they have some tracking sheeting on that we monitor to make sure and given the response, let me know if i'm overreaching here. but in my questioning but that is an alignment is this in alignment with the questions and conversations we've been having generally with providers, partners around inspections, abatements enforcements or is it very clear to separate these items, these items now that this is in

and then if hud internally has less capacity, it just really dismantles the system that was meant to protect people against housing discrimination. in a statement, a spokesperson for hud said the department is responsible for ensuring our grantees and contractors are in compliance with the president's executive orders. if we determine they are not in compliance, then we are required to take action. the department will continue to serve the american people, including those who are facing housing discrimination reduction. i left a separate job, took a pay cut to be able to serve my community after just 6 weeks serving as a financial analyst under hud's office of public and indian housing. >> frank zoo was terminated too. frank's work in short public housing authorities across the state, including the chicago housing authority cover housing costs for low income residents. the chicago housing authority covers about 80,000 families worth of housing. this includes housing choice. vouchers includes public housing. >> these are the families where hud subsidized a portion of their income to m

and then, uh, you came along with veterans and hud bash or hud vash and, and just regular section eight housing vouchers were ramped up. um, there's always pushback for spending money on those, those issues, which i think is a tragic push me pull. you know, we make some progress and then funding gets cut or funding gets flattened. yeah. so we're in another era of compassion fatigue because there was a lot of attention over the last few years. we really we can really this and sure some places it has been addressed but in places like the bay area it's most people look at the problem, they say, well, it's not fixed now i'm -- off. yeah. so, so kevin, i think we're coming close to the end here. i just want to return for a moment on a personal note, you say in the book that hope the book is a public service and the reporting that you've done. i want to say as a former public servant, it is absolutely a public service. but you've been doing this for decades. this is an enormously problem. you describe painful detail like losing folks who have become on the street and that you can't save every

pulte: as -- some of this stuff is in the hud jurisdiction but the hud does have blight funds, just not in the purview of fhfa. sen. alsobrooks: let me go to another question. tens of thousands of federal workers in my state and across the country are facing mortgage insecurity, because of this administration's mass layoffs and terminations. the fhfa has forbearance authority, and that authority they can help borrowers facing potential difficulties. can -- and fhfa used this during the covid pandemic for example. if confirmed would you make sure that all federal employees with loans backed by government guarantees can still access forbearance without penalty? mr. pulte: thank you for the question and you are right. the fhfa has exercised that authority at times. if confirmed, i will absolutely look into that issue. i'm not familiar about what the size of the impact has or will be but would love to learn from you and hear what your constituents are saying and would be happy to meet with you to learn more about it. sen. alsobrooks: you do support federal employees having access to that pr

musk's feet, but the ones on screen at hud today do look like fictional feet.or comment. we will keep you posted. but from the tops of the mountains to the bottoms of the president's top donors fake feet, americans are getting creative in their pushback. creative and unforgettable. thanks for watching the rachel maddow show weekend. be sure to join us weeknights at 9:00, monday to friday, 9 p.m. eastern monday to friday, 9 p.m. eastern for the rachel with fatigue and light-headedness, i knew something was wrong. then i saw my doctor and found out i have afib, and that means there's about a 5 times greater risk of stroke. symptoms like irregular heartbeat, heart racing, chest pain, shortness of breath, fatigue, or light-headedness, can come and go. but if you have afib, the risk of stroke is always there. if you have one or more symptoms, get checked out. making that appointment can help you get ahead of stroke risk. this is no time to wait. happens. that's why visionworks gives you 100 days to change your mind. >> it's simple. oh. >> anything else i can help yo

i'll have the details coming up. frightening ryan crowds gathering volumes of price of hud francis who remains critically ill and hospital and other later on in school. and so that for career cruising or the semi finals, which is again, let me change the instruction takes another go to the the had a lot of that. let's have a look at the weather across the south america this weekend. it remains exceptionally what across northern parts of the region with more heavy rain pouring into equitable. we've already seen flooding here, we could see more of that with the possibility of land slides as well. now, amber, lots remain for much of the country. read allows have been issued for the east to that for the north, east of brazil, so full jolessa see very heavy rain through saturday through to sunday. i will see the development often severe storms of a move in areas of origin. tina, moving their way through uruguayan on to some southern pots of brazil on sunday with the temperature and when a service dipping down. but it makes very settled. i'm hot for power. why? and also a lot dry of the nort

even more alarming, hud told me it wasn't even aware of this because there was no way to verify when or even if employees are engaging in union duties. so congressman bishop, will you commit to working with director vote and opm to restart this annual reporting requirements? mr. bishop: i follow closely the work is done in that area and also concerning the back to work issue with federal employees, so thank you for that. omb and opm to have a close working relationship. i am coming to learn about them as a senior advisor, not yet confirmed, but certainly i will take an active director vote and i think the issues you are speaking to are quite significant and of course i will be debye director into bloom and the policies that the policies of president trump and follow the direction of director vo ught. certainly look forward to communicate them with you about that and making sure the information you need is readily available. sen. ernst: a 2019 some of those agencies refused to provide opm with data. we you ensure all agencies are responsive to opm when it solicits information on taxpa

of power forward communities is shaun donovan, who previously served as barack obama's director of hud and omb. we also know stacey abrams is senior counsel for one of the collision groups called renaming america, affiliated with this. that is corruption and the waste we are trying to reach out. they talk about elon musk and doge and having access to american data. remember biden let 53 unpaid researchers and students have full access to the american people's data at the irs, and there was no outrage then. we are learning now that the biden irs leaked taxpayer information. we were told last year that it was only for -- i say only -- for 70,000 americans. we are finding out today it is actually 405,000 americans. that is the kind of access to data i am concerned about, and it is being leapt to a left-wing news outlet partially funded by george soros. these are the questions we should be asking and raising. they like to talk, i think disingenuously and very hyper thought -- hyperbolic -- hyperbolically about president trump being a dictator, even though the constitution says the power sh

a spokesperson for hud said the department is responsible for ensuring grantees and contractors are in compliance with the president's executive orders, and if they are not compliant, then action will be taken. >> several local governments have joined a lawsuit by san francisco and santa clara county over president trump's targeting of sanctuary cities. an amended complaint includes the cities of san jose, oakland, emeryville, santa cruz and sacramento, as well as monterey county and the city of seattle, washington. the original lawsuit was filed earlier this month after the president signed an executive order seeking to stop federal funding to sanctuary cities. the trump administration has defended its policies, claiming that sanctuary cities are obstructing law enforcement. >> from the trump administration's foreign policy to its effort to shrink the federal government. mass budget cuts and layoffs are prompting pushback across the country, including here in the bay area. >> ktvu an rubin, reports from palo alto tonight where protesters showed up at tesla's engineering headquarters t

meanwhile, on the back end of trump's proposed cuts to fema and hud may further harm communities tryingjoining me now is meteorologist and climate scientist chris langer. welcome, chris. i'm so glad to have you here. look, the mission between noaa and fema are intricate and intertwined in many respects. what do you think the implications of these fires firings may be, especially with about 100 days before we get into the heart of hurricane season. tornado season. >> michael. >> both operations are. >> 24 seven, 365. >> the mission. of the national weather service is to protect. >> life and property, and. >> we are in the. >> middle of a climate emergency. we are seeing $1. >> billion disaster. >> a disaster costing $1 billion. >> or more. >> every two and a half. >> weeks in. >> this country. and essentially. >> this administration. >> which refuses. >> to. >> acknowledge climate change, has essentially gutted. >> our primary. >> line of defense. and they've. >> really started. >> to take. apart fema, the one responding. >> agency. >> especially when states become overwhelmed, which we.

now, a spokesperson for hud said the department is responsible for ensuring grantees and contractorsdent's executive orders. and if they're not compliant, then action will be taken. >> california has the second highest electricity rates in the nation, and they're outpacing inflation. it also comes after pge announced it made 2.5 billion in profits after state regulators approved multiple rate increases in 2024. ashley zavala with the report from the state capitol. >> you're right. some of this work could have been done earlier. >> california public utilities commission president alice reynolds in the hot seat in the state senate. >> i don't feel like you answered my question. should we be shifting some of the burden to shareholders instead of putting it all on ratepayers? >> certainly open to, you know, legislative if the legislature has ideas on that. >> they questioned her about california's largest investor owned utility company, pge, and the six rate increases reynolds and the cpuc approved in 2024. >> those are. so we're approving work for the utility. the work that the utility

if you want to build infrastructure, you could go to hud and fema.ecommendation is we need to improve the delivery with the disaster assistance. they are not insuring a lot of these events. we have seen that happen. the flood insurance program, that one is not actuarially sound. it was $22.5 billion. host: $22.5 billion? guest: billion, that is after congress in 2017 receipt -- did $16 billion. our whole disaster response as the needs perform in light of these recent severe events. government could do better in this area. the survivors would agree. caller: could you hear me? i'm listening to mr. dodaro and i have to say i'm really encouraged by this man. he speaks with such a level head . i just want to know when there are people like themselves, there were inspector generals of all the other different departments. they had already spoken a bit, i already feel like my question is answered. what is the need for doge at all? guest: with regards to inspectors general, i was -- it was unfortunate in my view that they were fired. we lost a lot of expertis

struggle to find housing in san francisco the median incomes are arms we use are based on data from hudand are calculated by most cd while 50 while 50% is considered very low income. as we discuss a lot here housing at army levels below 50% remains sorely needed for our preference populations and all populations applying for our housing. so we do strive to include units with rent serving armies lower than 50% in each project and typically we are able to set aside some units at between 30 and 50% of am i. however, as commissioner brackett correctly pointed out, the number of the number of units targeting armies below 50% is limited by ensuring that properties can continue to fund ongoing project operations and maintenance. another way we make our units affordable to the lowest armies is to seek local and or federal operating subsidies that further lower the rents and ensure people with the very lowest incomes can be housed. over the last several decades the federal government has continually reduced federal resources going toward this type of housing subsidy. san francisco has filled som