In the midst of federal public housing official Lynne Patton’s week-long stays in New York public housing properties, Patton invited a NYCHA resident to meet President Trump at a White House event on Thursday.

PIX11 followed Patton and NYCHA Tenant Association President Carmen Quinones to Washington to find out what Trump had to say about public housing, which Patton herself called a “national emergency” earlier this month.

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