White House to Push Forward on National Urban Policy Agenda

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White House to Push Forward on National Urban Policy Agenda
Administration to Host Daylong Talks Tomorrow;Tour of U.S. Cities Planned

By Robin Shulman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 12, 2009; 11:12 AM


After remaining out of the public eye since its creation in February, the White House Office of Urban Affairs plans on Monday to launch a public conversation to create a national urban policy agenda, said Adolfo Carrión Jr., its director.

The White House will host a daylong urban policy discussion including mayors, county executives, governors, urban policy experts, and heads of various agencies, Carrión said in a telephone interview yesterday .

President Obama is expected to address the conference and announce plans to send Carrión and other senior administration officials on a tour of American cities to discuss urban issues, Carrión said.

The conference is the first indication that the White House could back its urban policy office with the kind of muscle that Obama suggested during his campaign, before the economic collapse. He called for a new kind of urban policy to address cities and also their suburbs, and urban advocates hoped that this could be a focus of his administration's economic development approach.

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since they created this office to see what would happen, urban policy is something that has sorely neglected for the last 8 years