‘Preserving the Middle Class’: Outgoing HUD Secretary Castro on Housing

Outgoing Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julián Castro recently released an exit memo recognizing the agency’s efforts under the Obama Administration, summing up its missive in words every disenfranchised American Dreamer strives for: “HUD provides a passport to the middle class.”
The memo, “Housing as a Platform for Opportunity,” acknowledged several housing initiatives undertaken since 2008, as well as issued future-focused remar