David Marshall: Will the next HUD Secretary fight for the unhoused?

Next HUD Secretary Scott Turner and President Donald Trump in 2020& Credit:Evan Vucci/AP Images (TriceEdneyWire.com)—In 2000, Republican George W. Bush ran for president as a “compassionate conservative.” Bush defended his approach: “Government cannot solve every problem, but it can encourage people and communities to help themselves and to help one another. Often, the truest kind of compassion is to help citizens build lives of their own.” Bush’s idea of compassionate conservativism was a way to return responsibility and accountability to individuals and, in doing so, free them from a life of poverty. The political slogan may have sounded good at the time, but Bush’s branding annoyed many of his fellow Republicans who found the catchphrase insulting. The phrase was “an attack and criticism on conservatives,” former Vice President Dan Quayle told the& New York Times. “Conservatives are compassionate and that is my criticism.” But when it came time for Bush to put action and policy behind the campaign rhetoric, he exposed himself as a “tax cut for the wealthy” Republican. When preparing the first budget under the Bush administration, Senate Finance Chairman Chuck Grassley provided $6 billion per year in tax credits to encourage charitable giving to organizations fighting poverty...