Bruce Katz
Bruce Katz
Bruce Katz is an American musician, playing piano, organ and bass guitar. From 1996 to 2010, he was on the faculty at the Berklee College of Music in Boston as an associate professor...
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth19 August 1952
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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.
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This Katrina situation is tailor-made for housing vouchers. You could get a voucher in New Orleans and move to Alaska if you wanted.
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This Katrina situation is tailor-made for housing vouchers, ... You could get a voucher in New Orleans and move to Alaska if you wanted.
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The response to the housing crisis has been incoherent and fiscally wasteful.
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The response of the federal government is bewildering and deplorable. We know how to deliver quality affordable housing in the United States -- we just need the will and leadership to do it.
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This whole sector is exploding. Cosmetic companies are rushing to get on board. They know this is the next big thing.
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To be frank, I'm bewildered by what has gone on here. There doesn't seem to be a plan that was really thought out in any significant way.
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Politically, they are less than the sum of their parts.
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Many of us are somewhat bewildered by this because we know how to relocate people fairly rapidly to decent housing.
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Many of us are somewhat bewildered by this, because we know how to relocate people fairly rapidly to decent housing.
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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.
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I think that the smaller cities that are coming back tend to be in the shadow of metropolitan areas that are performing very well economically.
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Melanoma is really increasing at an alarming rate. Just 10 years ago, you had a 1 in 250 chance of developing malignant melanoma; now it's 1 in 70.
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I think the Albany metropolitan (area) needs to think of itself as a unified whole. No part of it is big enough to drive the entire economy of the place.