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After Katrina, A Chance To Fight Urban Poverty

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan

9 September 2005 - 7:00am

David Brooks argues that Hurricane Katrina has created an opportunity to address urban poverty.

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Hurricane Katrina has given us an amazing chance to do something serious about urban poverty. [It has] given us a chance to rebuild a city that wasn't working...For New Orleans, the key will be luring middle-class families into the rebuilt city, making it so attractive to them that they will move in, even knowing that their blocks will include a certain number of poor people."

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Source: The New York Times, September 8, 2005
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