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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.
- Details of Illinois' $45 Billion Infrastructure Investment Plan
- Leadership in Urban Planning, After Two Successful Stints as a Planning Director
- Neighborhood Responds as Gentrification Concerns Spread in Cincinnati
- Development Depleting Groundwater in Arizona
- The Gentrification Effect of Urban Parks
- A Climate Change 'Paradigm Shift' in Florida
- Scooter Rides Aren't So Cheap Anymore
- The Constitutional Clause Being Used to Threaten Climate Change Policies
- Largest Condo High-Rise Since the Recession Planned for Chicago's Michigan Ave
- Life on the 'Nation's Most Photographed Street'
- House Legislation to Fund Vision Zero Investments Proposed
- Covington's New Neighborhood Development Code Wants to Ease Development, Protect Charm
- Home Prices Grows as Inventories Tighten in Detroit
- Robert Moses Inspires 'Motherless Brooklyn'
- Another Bay Area City Considers Urban Tolling
- Study: Sprawl Costs Local Governments More
- Report: Lime Likely to Lose $300 Million in 2019
- 2020 Conferences in Planning and Design
- New York MTA Reports Service, Ridership Improvements
- Facebook Offers $1 Billion to Ease California's Housing Affordability Crisis
