Outside Agency | Feb 13th at 9:43am
I agree with Ryan, but I think the approving murmurs are more of a result of a hopeful confidence that HUD might be an active - and respected - federal agency, a distinct change from previous administrations (not just the last one).
To this end, I disagree with Donovan’s statement that (paraphrasing):
There is a crisis in confidence in whether the feds can make a difference in housing.
I don’t think that there is a crisis in confidence, but instead that most people look (perhaps as always) to cities for action on housing issues rather than to HUD. Donovan, though, definitely seems prepared to change this.
Harry Moroz is a research associate at the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy. Harry is a contributor to the The HuffingtonPost and has written for the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Atlantic, and DMIBlog where he writes frequently about housing and urban policy.
