Sunday reading

- I'm embarrassed not to have previously noted the excellent Katrina/Rita resource page at the Corporation for Supportive Housing. Lots of policy and advocacy materials here. Also practical resources such as voice mail, and a call for experienced homeless outreach and medical people to volunteer temporarily in Texas.

- At the Brookings Institution, a meaty Katrina page organizing many studies and articles, including some from before the hurricane, on housing and other inequities made visible by Katrina. There's a Gulf Coast focus but plenty of interest to readers working elsewhere. Also at Brookings, a panel discussion -- transcript "forthcoming," it says -- on whether Census Bureau funding cuts could harm U.S. cities.

[UPDATE: David Smith holds forth instructively on Brookings' "After The Storm" findings on New Orleans.]

- Business Week suggests that "a slump would hurt most" in regions where job creation depends most on the construction industry.