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In Praise of Shaun Donovan

By Anonymous

I didn't get a chance to comment on this last week, but I wanted to mention that Obama couldn't have a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/13/us/politics/13appoint.html"picked/a a better nominee for HUD Secretary. a href="http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/about/bio-shaun-donovan.shtml"Shaun Donovan/a is absolutely top-notch. There's probably no area of policy I know more about than affordable housing, so I'm a hard person to please when it comes to nominating a HUD Secretary. But I was overjoyed when I heard that Obama had nominated Donovan. He has a deep knowledge of housing policy, both at the federal and state level. Most importantly, he understands better than anyone the importance of zoning, density, and multifamily housing.br /br /Donovan will inherit a truly dysfunctional HUD, but if there's anyone who can refocus HUD's attention onto the issues that span style="font-style: italic;"actually/span the provision of affect affordable housing, it's Donovan.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/economicsofcontempt/~4/489028315" height="1" width="1"/

Full post as published by Economics of Contempt on December 18, 2008 (boomark / email).