WASHINGTON--Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee, and committee members Reps. Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Michael Capuano (D-MA) today expressed their dismay at remarks made by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Alphonso Jackson during a hearing before the committee.
When responding to a question from one of the committee members, Mr. Jackson stated that he doesn’t talk about housing the poor because “being poor is a state of mind, not a condition.”
“Given the assault HUD has been waging on programs that help people in need, his cavalier assertion that being poor is simply a state of mind could serve as a dictionary illustration of adding insult to injury to poor people in America,” said Rep. Frank.
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