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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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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Long Island is where we invented the modern suburb, and whether Long Island will remake itself for the 21st century, that's the challenge.
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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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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.
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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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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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Whereas 10 years ago the risk of developing melanoma was one in 250, today the risk of people getting melanoma is about one in 70.
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The president called this the largest reconstruction program in the history of the world, but when it comes to housing, the support is almost nonexistent, ... He's just handing out land.
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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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The response to the housing crisis has been incoherent and fiscally wasteful.
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You rarely ever see such a seismic impact as a result of a new policy. Essentially, you're moving people from war zones into real neighborhoods.
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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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Many of us are somewhat bewildered by this because we know how to relocate people fairly rapidly to decent housing.