“The rent is too damn high!” says Marcia Fudge, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, in reference to the campaign phrase popularized by former politician Jimmy McMillan.
“He was absolutely right…I agree with him 100%,” said Fudge, head of the federal agency created in 1965 to address America’s housing and urban challenges, during a sit-down interview with theGrio.