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The Obama administration’s remarkable week on sustainable cities, smart growth and revitalization

July 16, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

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choiceneighborhoods, community, donovan, DOT, globalwarming, HOPEVI, housing, HUD, lahood, neighborhood, obama, smartercities, smartgrowth, urbanpolicy

Wow.  On Monday, before heading out to toss the first pitch at Tuesday's baseball All-Star Game, the president kicked off a White House forum on urban policy by criticizing past federal measures that have encouraged sprawl and promising a new...continued

Transportation Secretary LaHood leads the way on sustainability

June 18, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

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community, DOT, highspeedrail, lahood, livablecommunities, locationefficiency, smartercities, smartgrowth, sustainability, transit, transportation

This is not your father's DOT.  A couple of days ago I wrote a post on the remarkable (and now three-agency) partnership on sustainable communities within the Obama administration.  Secretaries Ray LaHood (DOT) and Shaun Donovan (HUD) and Administrator Lisa...continued

EPA joins exciting HUD/DOT partnership on sustainable communities

June 16, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

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DOT, EPA, epasmartgrowth, housing, HUD, lisajackson, planning, smartgrowth, sustainabledevelopment, transportation

The more the merrier, and one only wonders what took them so long.  Back in March, the Obama administration announced an exciting new partnership between the federal transportation and housing & urban development departments to pursue together an agenda for...continued

US Housing and Transportation Secretaries announce groundbreaking partnership for sustainable communities

March 19, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , U.S. Law and Policy

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affordablehousing, community, DOT, HUD, planning, smartgrowth, sustainablecommunities, transportation

This is awesome.  Here is an excerpt from yesterday's joint press release: "WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan and U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Ray LaHood today announced a new partnership to...continued

Kaid Benfield
Kaid Benfield
Director, Smart Growth Program
Washington, DC
Co-founder, LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system; co-founder, Smart Growth America coalition; author, Once There...
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