Welcome to Citiwire.net! What’s the meaning, the import, the future of the strong wave of community organizing sweeping America in the Obama era? Our Citistates Associate Lenneal Henderson tackles the issue. Lenneal was part of the Berkeley action himself back in the ’60s; today he’s Distinguished Professor of Government and Public Administration at the University of Baltimore … My column focuses on a extraordinarily bright opportunity for federal urban policy–to get the big federal departments to shake off their normal silk-like activity and actually collaborate in the field. An extraordinarily promising new effort, pushed by HUD and Transportation, has some strategic Capitol Hill support but seems to have developed ahead of any clear guidance or push from the new White House Office of Urban affairs.
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