Shaun Donovan: “We must make sure that fair housing is a real priority at HUD.”

We believe sequestration should be reversed. We believe that is the right course.

we estimate that the 20 percent of kids growing up in poverty in this country costs us $0.5 trillion a year in lost productivity and wages

Without your leadership, we would never have made the progress that we made on reducing veterans homelessness.

I would really describe [sequestration], in many cases, as mindless austerity, cutting just simply straight across the budget without reflecting, really, which are the critical investments.