Texas Metropolitan Blueprint: A Five-Year Policy Agenda for Action

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An actionable five-year plan to ensure the continuing prosperity and growth of Texas’s communities, the Texas Metropolitan Blueprint utilizes a comprehensive, cross-sector approach to align policy and action at both state and local levels.

Developed via a collaboration among the LBJ School of Public Affairs Urban Lab at The University of Texas at Austin, the George W. Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative, and the Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston, the Blueprint draws on the insights of more than 175 business, government, and nonprofit leaders, representing Democratic, Republican, and nonpartisan perspectives.