The Nation | Blog | The Daily Outrage | What would MLK think? | Ari Berman: "pecifically, the Administration is targeting the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the agency primarily responsible for addressing the problems of urban and low-income people. According to the Washington Post, the White House wants to 'drastically shrink HUD's $8 billion community branch, purging dozens of economic development projects, scrapping a rural housing program and folding high-profile anti-poverty efforts into the Labor and Commerce departments.'

While housing values skyrocket and poverty increases, HUD may lose a quarter of its $31 billion budget. "

(Via The Nation Weblogs.)