Bruce Katz Rebuilding Quotations

Bunching poor people together in the same neighborhood has enormous implications for education, business investment and the health of families, ... The issue in New Orleans is not only about rebuilding a great American city, but it's also about undoing 50 years of mistakes of federal housing policy.

It depends on a threshold question: What are you going to rebuild? What is the federal responsibility for rebuilding a city, a metropolitan area or a region? This is where it gets really confused. Federalism is a messy business.

The hurricane really unmasked racial concentrations and poverty that are already recognized in cities like Detroit and Newark, ... One principle of the rebuilding must be an all-out effort not to replicate the mistakes of the past that created the hyper-poverty in the city.