On August 22, 2017, Alec MacGillis at Propublica reported that a “long-harbored conservative dream — the “dismantling of the administrative state” — is taking place under Secretary Ben Carson.”

Alec reports that “Virtually all the top political jobs below Carson remained vacant. Carson himself was barely to be seen — he never made the walk-through of the building customary of past new secretaries. “It was just nothing,” said one career employee. “I’ve never been so bored in my life. No agenda, nothing to move forward or push back against. Just nothing.”

Secretary Carson has known for five months now that all of the HUD master key codes have been compromised. The master key codes are listed on E-Bay and on the websites of many of the mortgage segment lock suppliers. Everyone has easy access to HUD foreclosure properties. That seems to be okay with HUD. I have seen no movement toward electronic locks of lockboxes which would fix this huge security problem. They are moving toward changing some key codes. These will be compromised after a short time. HUD has no control over who has access to HUD properties.

More taxpayer money will fix all HUD M&M problems.

Draining the swamp at HUD will not be easy. It may never happen. Secretary Carson is not getting good advice from the staff at HUD. It appears that the staff … or at least some of the staff … are trying to push Ben Carson out of the door. They want him to fail. If he fails, Trump will replace him with a kick-ass 3- or 4-star Flag or General Officer.

Everyone knows that HUD bleaches and paints over dangerous black mold. There is no real HUD mold mitigation and approved air testing to verify mitigation. It’s always been a joke. Everyone knows that. Harvey and Irma will create some significant new problems with mold. The HUD foreclosures are sold “AS IS” … mold included. Why do HUD M&M contractors illegally electrically back-feed and test all of the appliances when the properties are sold “AS IS”.

Secretary Carson needs someone like Paul Williams at Foreclosurepedia to help him fight the alligators in HUD. Secretary Carson needs to surround himself with staff and friends that he can trust and who will give him honest answers and protect him. He needs to look outside of HUD for unidentified HUD problems and solutions to these problems. Secretary Carson needs to add Paul Williams to this “Friends List”. You want friends who will give you straight talk … tell it like it is. Paul Williams is right about 99% of the time as he does his research before he speaks. Ben and Paul should work together as they are both focused on helping those people at the bottom of the ladder. I hope Secretary Carson is not like that smoker who you tell that it is dangerous to your health to smoke and they keep smoking. You offer advice, but they ignore your advice.

I would like to see Secretary Carson succeed at HUD.

Foreclosurepedia reports Kimberlee Satterfield, Acting Director, US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), recently oversaw $616,787 in payments to PK Management. What were those payments for? Is HUD throwing away good money … money that needs to go to help disadvantaged people?

Mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures are at 10-year lows.