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Reflections on the crisis: the need for public sector entrepreneurialism


Abstract: In 2012, Mercedes Mrquez left her post as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development?s (HUD) Assistant Secretary of Community Planning and Development to return to Los Angeles and resume her role as the head of its Housing Department (LAHD). By virtue of these dual roles, she had the unique opportunity to see the foreclosure crisis and the response from both the local and federal policy perspective.

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Part of Series: Community Development Innovation Review

Publication Date: 2013

Issue: 02

Pages: 67-72