“I’ve tried to explain to my daughter that I work in housing, but her understanding is that I work with the president.”
Photo: Mark Peterson
For the latest edition of “Life in Pictures,” photographer Mark Peterson followed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro in Washington, D.C. on October 1 – while the 41-year-old former San Antonio mayor celebrated the government not shutting down. Ahead, Castro talks gentrification at the Atlantic’s Washington Ideas Forum, his affinity with Cory Booker, and his mother’s work in the Mexican-American civil-rights movement.
*This article appears in the November 2, 2015 issue of New York Magazine.
