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Housing Secretary Marcia Fudge on confronting a ‘racist’ system 

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge is addressing a gap in Black homeownership amid a jump in homelessness.

She joins Here & Now’s Deepa Fernandes to discuss how she is focusing on housing through a lens of racial equity, while pushing for more affordable home construction.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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