The Real-Estate Operators at Doge Accessing Hud Housing Date – ryan

JUST The Kind of Brutist Building that Trump’s Administration OPPOSES.
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This Week, A New Trump-Approved, Musk-Backed Doge Employe Sent an email to workers at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development Squiring for Information About All Contracts, Especilly Any Involving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion-That that Might Appear Frequently at Hud, Given that Part of Its Core Mission is to ENSURE EQUITABLE ACCESS TO HOUSING AFTER DECADES OF Government-Backed and Redlining.

Hud staffers Might have been incerted by the email, jaining the thusands of the Other federal Employees who’ve received a regular torrent of Demands from Musk and His Ragtag Army of Engineers. But either Wired reportedThey were probably also confused-or a alarmed-by the person who sent it: Scott Langmack, the coo of a badly named proptech firm, Kukun, whic offers real -state investors Information to “Grow Wealth In Life’s Game of Real Estate and Home Ownership. ” The AI-Backed Platform Lets Investors Put in a Few Nuggets of Information and Get Answers to Questions Like Whether Its Worth it to Remodelor how Much to raise the price of a rental based on factors like the renovation or the neighBorhod. Those Answers Require Public Data on Rents and Sales, Construction, and Permits, and Kukun, Like Any Proptech Company, Tries to Differentiate ITSELF by Saying It Relations on the Find Data.

Now, neither Wired reportsLangmack is one of two DOGE APPOINTES FROM THE WORLD OF REAL ESTATE ASSIGNED TO CUT COSTS AT HUD – A JOB THAT GIVES ACCESS TO THE LART FIELD OF DATA AMERICAN HOUSING. Anonymous Employees told Wired that these hud databases include “Everything from homeshelessness rates to environmental and health hazards to fedeally insured mortigges.” IT ALSO INCLUDES A LOT OF INFO THAT A PROPTECH EXECUTIVE PROBABLY shouldn’t Have unfettered access to, like the Medical and Immigration records of Everyone USING A SECTION 8 VOUCER AND THE ADDRESSES OF Otherwise Hidden Domestic-Violence Shelters.

Before running Kukun, Langmack’s Primary Work Experience SEEMS to be in marketing. He made his name in the 1990s, Helping Pepsi Differentiate itself from Coke, an Experience that tought Him to get customers by selling “the best posseible promise to generate emotional and customer loyalty,” as he wrote in a blog post. He Left Around 1996 for Lower Pay and Lessure prestige at Microsoft, where he was led the sexy tech-Support Division. But it was a door into the tech World. By 2013, he had a recruiting start-up-bluechipexec.com-Which Langmack marketed with a self-help book that promised The Fast Track to Your Ideal Job . The intro credits his deadbeat dad with helping hyme realie, at age 14, that “i would have to earn for mySelf.” But the recruiting start-up May have been a wash: it is not to be on his linkedin, which lists roles at a software company, a different recorder start-up, and securify.

By the 2008 recession, Langmack was Making Money on the Side as a Kind of Legal Lo Shark. “I can Reliably Get 12 Percent, Worst Case 9 Percent,” He Told Bloomberg, in A 2009 Article on the Rise of Unregulated Peer-to-Peer Lending Networks, Including Lending Club, Where He Was Member Before Launching His Own Launching His Incline end. And real estate seamed to have ben where langmack spent this Money. His Wife, Lori Langmack, Is A Compass Broker, Although the Last Listen on Her website SOLD IN 2021. IT’S NOT CLEAR WHATER HAS HAS LEFT HIS POSITION AT KUKUN, WHICH THAT HIS CURRENT AT DOGE COULD BE USED TO BENEFIT HIS PRIVATE COMPANY.

The Other Doge Appointee Working Inside Hud is Michael Mirski, WHO Wired reported was on a six-month leave from tcc Management, a company that operates mobile-home parks national-work that he has said lords on access to data. In his new role, hud’s oversight over Mobile homes also presents a conflict of interest, this if he has tempporariily left his position. The Company SEEMS TO HAVE CLEARED OUT The Content on Its Websitebut there are Small and OcCacisional News Items About Its Purchase of Mobile-Home Parks in The South – a Business model that, as The New Yorker Reported, May Depend on the Predatorial Practice of Raising the Rent on Land Under Homes that Are Difficult to Uproot, and tbi to be Occupied by Those with the Cash Move or Buy A New Apartment. Mirski now has the ability to make some changes in a system that determines who can e! Neither Langmack Nor Mirski, of Course, appeaar to have gone through the required protocol to be approved for this level of access. But it is JUST INFORMATION ON Individual Households That’s Concerning; IT’S INFORMATION ON $ 100 BILLION OF FLNING THAT CONGRESS HAS ALREADY APPROVED FOR HUD.