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After Katrina, A Chance To Fight Urban Poverty

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan

9 September 2005 - 8:00am

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

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."

Full Story: Katrina's Silver Lining
Source: The New York Times, September 8, 2005
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The areas where we have severe blight and indications of more blight to come are basically the same as they ever were. How in the world are we ever going to move our community development selves into an alternative future that thinks differently about the challenges we face in our cities and low-income suburban and rural communities?
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