Lessons from Katrina for Urban and Social Welfare Policy
Bruce Katz, Director, Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program
Monday, October 10, 2005, 8 p.m., 2104 Art and Architecture Building
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Urban and Regional Planning Program
and the
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)
Bruce Katz is one of the most prominent commentators on cities
and urban policy in America. A former Chief of Staff of the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development, he heads The Brookings
Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program and its varied research agenda
on the challenges facing America’s metropolitan regions. Katz has been
in the trenches of urban policy making in the executive and legislative
branches of government, and his informed commentaries are frequently
featured on op-ed pages across the country. He is the editor of
Reflections on Regionalism (Brookings 2000) and a graduate of Yale Law
School.
