Urban Affairs
via [ Washington Post ]
President Obama is putting a new emphasis on revitalizing U.S. cities with a coordinated effort that involves stimulus funding and getting multiple agencies to work together to improve schools, housing and neighborhoods…
“This is way more than an ocean liner trying to change direction,” said Angela Glover Blackwell, founder of PolicyLink, an advocacy organization that has consulted with the administration. “This is glacial.”
To coordinate his initiatives, Obama in March named Adolfo Carrion Jr., a former Bronx borough president, to direct his new White House Office of Urban Affairs.
“This is not your father’s White House,” Carrion said in an interview. “This is a new way of looking at the new city-metro reality.”
Over the past two months, Carrion and other administration officials — from agencies as diverse as the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Transportation Department and the Environmental Protection Agency– have visited cities to observe innovative development plans.
Obama Sets Sights on Urban Renewal - washingtonpost.com.
