Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Mariia Zimmerman

Turning the Queen Mary: A Conversation with HUD, Part II

By Tanya Snyder | | No Comments
How do three massive governmental bureaucracies (HUD, DOT, and EPA) nimbly change their approaches and procedures to work together on the Partnership for Sustainable Communities? How can communities ensure that transit-oriented development doesn’t end up pricing out existing residents? How can recipients of federal planning grants move from planning to implementation of livability strategies? Streetsblog […]

Livability and the GOP: A Conversation With HUD’s Mariia Zimmerman

By Tanya Snyder | | 4 Comments
Perhaps the Obama administration’s greatest contribution to building more livable, less traffic-choked communities has been the new partnership between three agencies — DOT, EPA, and HUD — which are helping towns and cities grow more sustainably, using strategies from brownfield redevelopment to the provision of affordable housing along transit corridors. The agencies have collaborated to […]