Webcast of a panel discussion at New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate & Urban Policy on February 12, 2007. Moderated by Ingrid Gould Ellen, co-director of the Furman Center, the panel featured MacArthur President Jonathan Fanton; Shaun Donovan, New York City Commissioner for Housing Preservation and Development; Sandra Newman, director of Johns Hopkins University's Institute for Policy Studies; and Denise Scott, managing director of Local Initiatives Support Corporation in New York.
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