> REMARKS: Statement on post-Katrina legislation Remarks by SGA's Parris Glendening to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works 

> ESSAY: "Katrina: A Watershed for a Nation and a Movement", an essay by SGA's David Goldberg. PolicyLink

> Equitable Renewal: Ten Points to Guide Rebuilding in the Gulf Coast RegionThe National Low Income Housing Coaltion

> Community Recovery Fund

The Victoria Transport Policy Institute
> “Lessons From Katrina: What A Major Disaster Can Teach Transportation Planners”,> The American Planning Association Katrina section of APA's web site

The Natural Resources Defense Council
> What Katrina Revealed
An open letter from NRDC's John Adams
“Katrina destroyed the fantasy that we can blithely go on increasing our dangerous dependence on oil -- whether imported or domestic. Our oil-addicted economy is just too vulnerable to supply disruptions, as anyone who filled up their gas tank last week discovered.”

> After Katrina: New Solutions for Safe Communities and a Secure Energy Future

> The National Trust for Historic Preservation
“Plans underway include participation in preservation assessment teams, assistance to small businesses through the National Trust Main Street Center and dispersement of critical grant monies to organizations on the ground in affected communities.”

LISC and Enterprise Foundation
> Community Relief Fund
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) and Enterprise are joining forces to help finance the redevelopment of impacted Gulf Region communities and provide affordable housing to returning hurricane victims.They are raising grant, loan and equity dollars to build new homes, spur economic development, and support the restoration of the critical community infrastructure that is desperately needed throughout parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

The Center for Neighborhood Technology
> Communications restoration
The Center for Neighborhood Technology, based in Chicago, helped restore communications in the affected area by deploying a technology used to share Internet service among low-income households. New York Times.

IN THE NEWS

> Evacuees face urban-dwellers' nightmare: suburbia Austin American-Statesman
> ULI panel offers conceptual plan for rebuilding New Orleans nola.com
> Former MS governor: Rebuilding affordable housing a top priority Mississippi Sun Herald
> Katrina: Issues and the Aftermath The Brookings Institution
> Christie Todd Whitman offers views on rebuilding the Gulf Coast Michigan Land Use Institute
> COMMENTARY: Katrina exposes urgent need to fix America’s obsolete way of life Houston Chronicle
> Let's all imagine a new and very livable Gulf Coast Brookings Institute
> Katrina, New Orleans, and Poverty
The Brookings Institution offers an analysis of the effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans, lessons to be drawn and a plan for rebuilding and renewal. The Insitution also draws broader lessons about addressing concentrated poverty. USA TODAY
> Vision: Rebuild 'new urban' Mississippi coast NY Times
> Gulf Coast: A Vision to Revive, Not Repeat Atlanta Journal-Constitution
> Anti-sprawl group eyes cozier designs for residents Sun-Herald, Biloxi
> Together, we'll draw a blueprint for rebuilding Chicago Tribune
> EPA bill would create a new health hazard Houston Chronicle
> Glimmers of bipartisan hope seen in hurricanes' wake
> End subsidies to disaster-prone construction Washington Post
Now that a suitable interval has passed, perhaps it's time to return to the question of Sen. Trent Lott's house.
> Visions of the New New Orleans Washington Post
By Neal Peirce If the nation's heart in responding to the challenges of Hurricane Katrina is even half as large as President Bush now says it is, we face a set of perplexing "how's."
> Why New Orleans must be rebuilt Chicago Tribune
By Blair Kamin “You don't abandon cities if they are plagued with deadly infrastructure problems. You solve those problems … . Now is not the time to tell New Orleans to drop dead.”
> Don’t Mess with Mother Newsweek
By Anna Quindlen “The cataclysm named Katrina has inspired a Hummer-load of rumination, about class, about race, about the pathetic failure of the Feds after four long years of much-vaunted homeland-security plans. … The long view at the moment is not about patching levees, or building houses, or getting oil rigs back up and running, or assigning blame. It's about changing the way we all live now.”
> EDITORIAL Lexington Herald Leader
Rebuilding New Orleans in many ways prefigures the task ahead for all American cities in this age of terror. City building must be rethought; metropolises must be retrofitted to become robust centers of urbanity, social life and economic well-being. More small- and medium-size cities must avoid the mistakes of their bigger civic brethren by using a new blueprint for future development.

OTHERS

> Congressman Earl Blumenauer
“We must … fix the budget process to resolve the ironic situation where it is technically “cheaper” from an appropriations standpoint to spend billions of dollars on disaster relief rather than millions of dollars on disaster prevention.”