Ben Carson arrives for the presidential inaugural parade in front of the White House on Jan. 20. Carson was confirmed as Housing and Urban Development secretary on Thursday. Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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HUD nominee Ben Carson testifies at his Senate confirmation hearing. Zach Gibson/AP hide caption
HUD Secretary Julian Castro hopes his likely successor, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, will come to support many of HUD's programs, but worries whether he'll roll back a new fair housing rule. Ariel Zambelich/NPR hide caption
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson arrives at Trump Tower last month. The Trump transition office announced early Monday Carson will be nominated to be HUD secretary. Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
People in Denver line the sidewalks near the Denver Rescue Mission in October. Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images hide caption
San Francisco's Mission District will be one of four additional neighborhoods given preferential access to an affordable senior housing complex in an agreement between the city and the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. Sean Gallup/Getty Images hide caption
Comcast's discounted program, called Internet Essentials, is expanding beyond families with schoolchildren. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King at a rally in Chicago's Grant Park in 1966. Bernard Kleina/Courtesy of Bernard Kleina hide caption
Rowhouses in Baltimore sit across the street from a church where Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., held a meeting last summer about, among other things, reducing ex-convict recidivism. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro said Thursday the proposed rule "will help improve the health of more than 760,000 children." Dave Martin/AP hide caption
Homeless people and their tents line a canal in Honolulu in June 2015. Hours after a city crew cleared the banks of the canal, the homeless people that had been living there moved right back to the riverside. Cathy Bussewitz/AP hide caption
Jordan McClellan gets help making lunch from daughter Kyra Brooks in their apartment in Southeast Washington, D.C. McClellan has been fighting homelessness for most of her adult life, living in family shelters and transitional housing until she was moved into the rapid rehousing program. Lexey Swall/GRAIN for NPR hide caption
For Homeless Families, Quick Exit From Shelters Is Only A Temporary Fix
Artists' renderings of New Meadowland show how the wetland would be designed for human recreational use as well as flood control. The berm shown would be a path through the park when water was low (left). When storms came in, the wetlands would flood, and the berm would protect local development. Courtesy of New Meadowlands hide caption
N.J. Braces For Future Disasters By Fleeing, And Fortifying, The Coast
For sale signs on a foreclosed house in Glendale, Calif., last September. Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images hide caption