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Julian Castro on Welfare & Poverty
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ConnectHome: Support affordable housing
As HUD Secretary, one of Castro's main project included ConnectHome--an initiative that brought internet accessibility to those who lived in HUD-assisted housing in 28 communities.In 2016, HUD launched a fund that provided $173 million in grants to
create affordable housing. He also put in practice the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule, which required cities that receive federal money to examine potential biases in housing opportunities, per CNBC.
Source: Axios.com "What you need to know about 2020"
, Apr 22, 2019
Lower energy consumption in HUD-assisted housing
Q: Do you support new regulations to cut greenhouse gas emissions beyond what was in place under President Obama?Castro: Addressing the existential crisis of climate change requires bold and aggressive action. President Obama put forward important
policies that were a major step forward for our country and the world. For example, at HUD [which Mr. Castro used to lead], we worked on efforts to lower energy consumption and increase renewable energy usage in HUD assisted housing.
But we cannot afford to stop there. We need renewable energy and performance standards, resilient infrastructure with stricter codes for sustainability, and we need incentives for research and investment in cutting-edge technologies.
Q: Do you support
a national renewable energy standard? If so, what would it be? If not, why not?
Castro: Yes. Lowering carbon emissions will require a national renewable energy standard that gradually increases until we achieve our emissions target by 2050.
Source: 2019 "Meet the Candidates" (NY Times.com)
, Apr 18, 2019
Government can help needy families get back on their feet
As the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, I worked to expand the promise of opportunity to Americans all over the nation. Together, my team and I made housing more accessible, lessened homelessness among our
nation's veterans and even offered internet access to families in public housing. We set out to help families get back on their feet and achieve more than they thought possible.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website JulianForTheFuture.com
, Mar 27, 2019
ConnectHome: make HUD the Department of Opportunity
Every year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) creates opportunity for more than 30 million Americans, including more than 11.6 million children. That support ranges from assisting someone in critical need with emergency shelter
for a night to helping more than 7.8 million homeowners build intergenerational wealth. Simply put, HUD provides a passport to the middle class. HUD is many things but, most of all, it is the Department of Opportunity. Everything we did in the last
eight years was oriented to bring greater opportunity to the people we serve every day. That includes the thousands of public housing residents who now have access to high-speed Internet through ConnectHome. It includes the more than 1.2 million
borrowers in 2016--more than 720,000 of them firsttime homebuyers--who reached their own American Dream because of the access to credit the Federal Housing Administration provides.
Source: HUD.gov Cabinet Exit Memo for Obama Cabinet biographies
, Jan 5, 2017
Page last updated: Jun 24, 2019