Historic Preservation Programs Nixed By Obama
The Obama administration has cancelled two Federal programs - Save America's Treasures and Preserve America - that were responsible for the restoration of nearly 900 historic structures over the past 10 years.
The White House claims that "Both programs lack rigorous performance metrics and evaluation efforts so the benefits are unclear."
Donovan Rypkema of PlaceEconomics debates that conclusion over at Treehugger:
"This work meant 16,012 jobs (a job being one full time equivalent job for one year...the same way they are counting jobs for the Stimulus Program). The cost per job created? $13,780.
This compares with the White House announcement that the Stimulus Package is creating one job for every $248,000. Whose program is helping the economy?"
Published on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 in
- A City With Room for Everyone
- Why was BART's Ridership Forecast for Millbrae Station So Wildly Off-Base?
- Comparing the World's Urban Tree Canopies
- Desert 5, Humans 0
- The Roots of Racial Transition
- An Investigation of Affordable Housing Failure on the Atlanta Beltline
- The Secrets of 'Place Making' Success
- Report Predicts the End of Individual Car Ownership
- Friday Friendly: More Houses Should Have Patios in the Front
- Trump Administration Suddenly Drops Fair Housing Concerns in Westchester, New York
- Could Baby Boomers Make Room for Millennials?
- Millennials Prefer Revitalized Historic Areas, Not Malls
- Friday Funny: Infrastructure Woes Cause National Case of Insomnia
- No Self-Driving Cars Without Hyper-Local Maps
- Planning for Water Scarcity in Colorado
- Coffee With Your Gentrification?
- Oregon Bike Tax Attracts Interest of Influential Colorado State Senator
- Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, Here the Day After That
- How Planners Can Liberate the Next Amazon
- Buying American Is Making Infrastructure More Expensive, Study Finds
