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White House Urban Affairs Chief: Promising Words But Little Hint of a Plan
Adolfo Carrion Jr., director of the White House's new Office of Urban
Affairs, today vowed to begin reconnecting Washington with the needs of
the nation's cities -- even as he offered few tangible plans for
breaking through the morass of the federal bureaucracy and effecting
change in the near term.
October 6, 2009
Obama’s Touted Office of Urban Policy Slow to Take Shape
When
Barack Obama was elected, urbanists were, in some cases literally,
dancing in the streets. For once, America had elected a president who
understood the importance of cities -- and who promised to create an
"Office for Urban Policy" that would help those cities to take their
rightful place in the federal policy debate.
April 27, 2009