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Sustainable Communities: Live Event with HUD, DOT and EPA Leadership
Whitehouse.gov held a live online event on July 15th at 2pm EDT/11am PDT on sustainable communities. All of the questions were submitted and chosen by Planetizen readers. An archive of the event can be viewed here.
The Partnership for Sustainable Communities is a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the U. S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to help improve access to affordable housing, increase transportation options, and lower transportation costs while protecting the environment in communities nationwide. Representing the agencies, we have:
Speakers:
- Shelley Poticha, Director for the Office of Sustainable Housing at HUD
- Beth Osborne, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at DOT
- Tim Torma, Deputy Director of the Office of Sustainable Communities at the Environmental Protection Agency
- And moderated by Derek Douglas, Special Assistant to the President on Urban Policy at the White House.
- America's Largest Suburb Flirts With Urbanization
- Gentrification, for Better and Worse
- Baltimore's New Bus System Comes With a Snazzy New Map
- The (Irrational) Criminalization of Walking
- The Scourge of Setbacks
- Seattle's New Seawall: An Experiment in Climate Adaptation and Habitat Restoration
- Ramps to Help Ducks in and out of the Capitol Reflecting Pool Make a Big Splash
- When You live at 78ºN, You Become an Expert in Everything
- Is Houston a City of the (Demographic) Future?
- Big, Expensive Idea: Bury Six Miles of Expressway Under Brooklyn
- Northeast is Next Market for Fuel Cell Vehicles
- Design Library: African-American Perspectives on Architecture
- Colorado Still Short Cash and Ideas to Fix its Roads
- Solving Homelessness: Title V's Shortcomings and Potential Explained
- Mapping Chicago's Zoning Code Changes
- YIMBYs Attacked from the (Far) Left
- Affordable Housing Lacking in Every State
- L.A. Metro Announces Big Bus System Redo
- 'Plansplaining' and its Discontents
- Trump's Tax Reform Proposal Would Have a Big Effect in the Housing Market
