The Department of Care should be designed to break through bureaucratic silos. Caring for public space will require multiple agencies to invest time and resources, and to work collaboratively with local stakeholders who know their communities best. This means having everyone at the table: from the Departments of Transportation, Sanitation, and Health to the Parks Department and the city’s Economic Development Corporation to Small Business Services and Cultural Affairs. — Justin Garrett Moore on Medium
Mayor de Blasio appears to have reneged on his police 2020 commitment to taking $1 billion out of the annual NYPD budget. Justin Garrett Moore, who left the city's Public Design Commission in December and was appointed to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts by President Biden this year, has been a leading figure in the push for design justice initiatives in New York.
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What if cities instead had billions in funding for a Department of Care? What if NYC had a $6 billion annual budget for the better care for our people, our places, and our planet?
— Justin Garrett Moore (@jgmoore) June 8, 2020
"What if cities instead had billions in funding for a Department of Care? What if NYC had a $6 billion annual budget for the better care for our people, our places, and our planet?" Moore stated on Twitter. He added that his concept was influenced by political theorist Joan Tronto's definition of care that first appeared in her seminal 1993 text Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care.
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