Middle East Speech
Derek Douglas, Special Assistant to the President for Urban Affairs in the White House Domestic Policy Council, describes new capacity-building grants that will help neighborhoods develop and execute on their visions for growth and ensure that investments in the community are made strategically to maximize impact.
Melody Barnes, along with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson and U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Senator Ben Cardin, and local city partners announce a new federal partnership to reconnect urban communities with their waterways by improving coordination among federal agencies and collaborating with community-led revitalization efforts.
Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes discusses the President's vision for and place-based approach to urban America.
The Budget proposes a series of coordinted investments around our three signature place-based initiatives.
An update on the White House’s Domestic Policy Council (DPC) interagency Rental Policy Working Group.
A weekly look at recent and upcoming events in urban policy from the Office of Urban Affairs
The Urban Policy Working Groups focus on initiatives that not only build on Administration priorities, but also embody a holistic and integrated approach to urban policy. These proposed initiatives recognize that our national urban policy should be flexible enough to adapt to (and indeed should strengthen the connection between) the multiple geographic scales -- neighborhood, city, and metropolitan -- at which leaders act to address increasingly complex challenges.
The Urban Tour is an important illustration of the Administration’s commitment to Urban and Metropolitan America, and reflects the Administration’s bottom-up approach to reshaping the Federal-urban partnership. The tour approaches urban-metro regions as assets, and highlights innovations that are interdisciplinary and that are to the benefit of entire regions.