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...Now, as President Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, she is being counted on by progressives to do the same in urban areas across the US....
...Marcia Fudge, a black congresswoman, was chosen as secretary of housing and urban development....
...Nor does Xavier Becerra, Biden’s pick to be secretary of health and human services. Marcia Fudge, his secretary for housing and urban development, has no background in public housing....
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...Soon afterwards, Shaun Donovan, the US secretary of housing and urban development, made a study tour of the Dutch water defences....
...Oil prices rose to their highest levels for a month on Friday, in response to the latest developments in the Middle East. Gold prices were on track for their biggest weekly gain in three years....
...The system was credited with enlarging the pool of homeowners but came unstuck in the 2008 housing slump Fannie and Freddie finance such developments in part because they are one of the main ways cheaper...
...His newly-appointed secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, visited Riyadh in April to push, in vain, for a compromise deal....
...Between 2009 and 2012, he was assistant secretary for policy development and research at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development under then-President Barack Obama, where he advised the HUD secretary...
...Mr Cordish started to take on new challenges in the 1970s, when a high-school friend recruited him to set up the Urban Development Action Grant (UDAG) programme for the housing department of President Jimmy...
...labour secretary, to head the transportation department....
...The United Nations headquarters in New York, the buildings of Brasilia, the monolithic downtown slabs of the corporate US, all were fronted by an urban space to show off the new architecture....
...The case of Al Qouz is especially interesting. An isolated desert area in 1971, Al Quoz slowly grew via a sprawl of factories, warehouse complexes and low-income housing for migrant workers....
...So it is not surprising, but highly positive, that the United Nations has adopted a new goal specifically relating to urban development and security as part of its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), successors...
...: they killed them all, according to US state department officials....
...We’ve grown almost three times faster than Japan, twice as fast as France, faster than Germany and at the same rate as the United States....
...Majid Al Futtaim, a Dubai shopping mall operator, wants to invest $2.4bn in Egypt over the next five years, while Al Futtaim Group, also from Dubai, is looking to spend $3bn over seven years on urban development...
...of Housing and Urban Development, Ministry of Land and Natural Resources, Taxation Bureau, among others....
...Congressmen John Delaney, who started two companies that went public and is one of the richest members; Jim Himes, a former Goldman Sachs banker; and John Carney, who was finance secretary of incorporation...
...For, as they say up here, Manchester is not so much a city as a state of mind....
...Such developments remain modest given the scale of the problem....
...the acute housing shortage in the capital....
...Prior to the election, US assistant secretary of state for African affairs Johnnie Carson warned of “consequences” on a Kenyatta presidency, while the UK cautioned that diplomats would have only “essential...
...But we don’t have to increase the DfID [Department for International Development] budget further to do that....
...President Barack Obama named Shaun Donovan, US secretary of housing and urban development, to oversee the rebuilding of the battered New York and New Jersey region after superstorm Sandy....
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