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Julio Barreto
A new publication to be released in January calls on President-Elect Barack Obama to create a White House Office on Metropolitan Policy and an increased commitment to housing within his first 100 days in office.The publication, Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President is being published by the Center for American Progress. The group was founded by John Podesta who is serving as head of Obama’s transition team. The book includes a chapter on the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The chapter’s authors, former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros and his former Chief of Staff Bruce Katz, call HUD a “legacy government – an overly compartmentalized agency administering programs and policies more suited to an earlier era, with information systems that impede rather...
