The Brookings Institute on Community Leadership

ur nation's inner cities are grappling with a host of highly complex problems and lack adequate economic resources to solve them. Eroding infrastructures, inadequate housing and health care, failing schools, unsafe streets, and high unemployment are some of the issues that a panel of new urban leaders will discuss at a day-long conference at the Brookings Institution. Joyce Ladner, a Brookings senior fellow, will host some of the nation's most effective urban problem solvers, discussing their best practices in coping with the nation's most critical urban problems through sustainable community development. For more on this article, please click here...