Hannon Armstrong Appoints Clarence D Armbrister and Nancy C Floyd to Board of Directors
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Philadelphia s Open-Door Immigrant Policy Immigrant populations remain a key source of economic development for inner cities. Andy Kim | January 2011
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter’s administration has taken an unabashed pro-immigrant stance, welcoming all with no questions asked. It may sound a bit extreme, but the move by the City of Brotherly Love reflects an open-arms approach to immigrants in urban areas and there’s a reason for this open-door policy. Immigrants have been good for cities throughout history, and that symbiotic relationship continues today.
In Philadelphia, the immigrant story has become a prominent feature of life: Foreign-born residents make up 9 percent of the population in the metro region, which has the fastest-growing immigrant base among its peers, according to a 2008 Brookings Institution report.
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The visuals for Shaun Donovan’s campaign kickoff event to be the next mayor of New York City couldn’t have been more New York. It opened with a prayer from the Rev. Johnny Ray Youngblood, who has been a leader on affordable housing in Brooklyn for more than 40 years. And Donovan spoke on the rooftop of Via Verde, a subsidized housing development in the South Bronx, with the Manhattan skyline rising over his shoulder.
But the endorsements that Donovan rolled out on Tuesday told a different story, of somebody whose closest political connections and strongest support aren’t based in New York, but rather Washington D.C., and other cities around the country that Donovan worked with when he was a cabinet secretary in President Barack Obama’s administration