DOT-HUD-EPA Partnership Looks to Boost Investment in Smart Growth

The first administration to make smart growth a federal policy, President Obama entrusted its implementation to the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which created an interagency Partnership for Sustainable Communities last June and now work to inject some $667 million more into the economic foundation for a ''cleaner and greener'' America. With nothing more important now than creating jobs, wrote DOT Secretary Ray LaHood, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson in a Seattle Times guest column at the start of the 9th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth Conference, ''(w)e need communities where residents have easy access to jobs; where there are clean, reliable options for transportation to work and school; where housing is affordable and energy efficient; and where clean and renewable energy is abundant.''
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Article courtesy of New Smart Growth Network