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The Texas Metropolitan Blueprint is an actionable five-year plan designed to ensure the continuing prosperity and growth of Texas’s communities. Developed via a collaboration among the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin,the George W. Bush Institute at SMU, and other stakeholders, the Blueprint outlines 27 recommendations guided by core principles such as supporting local innovation, investing in infrastructure and affordable housing, and focusing on homegrown talent-driven growth.
Pablo Pinto, director of the Center for Public Policy at the university of Houston’s Hobby School of public Affairs, emphasizes that the Blueprint provides an action-oriented playbook with clear steps and priorities. “by advancing this plan, we can position Texas metros as leaders in economic and social innovation — both today and in the future,” Pinto said.
Key principles of the Blueprint include:
- Support Local Innovation and End Preemption: Empower communities to prioritize and fund initiatives that align with their unique, local needs versus seeking one-size-fits-all solutions across the state.
- Invest in Infrastructure and Affordable Housing: strengthen critical infrastructure — water, energy, and broadband — and address housing affordability to sustain long-term prosperity.
- Focus on Homegrown Talent-Driven Growth: Shift from recruiting talent from other states to developing homegrown human capital through higher education, apprenticeships, skills-based certifications, and fast-track programs.
The Blueprint aims to align policy and action at state and local levels, ensuring that Texas’s 26 metropolitan areas, where 90% of Texans now live, continue to thrive. The Texas Triangle, including the Dallas-Fort worth, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin metros, has become one of the world’s most economically powerful regions.
For more details, visit the Texas Metropolitan Blueprint website: Texas Metropolitan Blueprint.
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- Texas Metropolitan Blueprint - University of Houston
- Here’s what Texas’ 26 metros need this legislative session
- PDF Texas Metropolitan Blueprint – University of Houston
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### About the Collaborating Policy Institutes
#### The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin
The LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin is one of the nation’s premier public policy schools, uniquely positioned within a top-tier research university, the State Capitol, and one of America’s most innovative cities. Founded in 1970 by President Lyndon B. Johnson to expand access to the halls of power, the school offers a range of nationally ranked degree programs that prepare students to take on society’s most pressing challenges. The LBJ School also provides career development and leadership training to emerging policy leaders and operates numerous research centers that develop solutions to complex local, state, national, and global challenges.
#### The Hobby School of Public Affairs at The University of Houston
The Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston is a thriving resource for public affairs education, research, and civic engagement. Through interdisciplinary coursework, ethics and leadership training, and experiential learning opportunities, the next generation of leaders at the Hobby School is prepared to face unique challenges in various sectors. Research at the Hobby School incorporates objective and rigorous methodologies to focus on issues crucial to the Houston region, Texas, and the nation.
#### The George W. Bush Institute and The George W.Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative
The George W. Bush Institute is a solution-oriented nonpartisan policy association focused on ensuring opportunity for all, strengthening democracy, and advancing free societies. Housed within the George W. Bush Presidential Center, the Bush Institute is rooted in compassionate conservative values and committed to creating positive, meaningful, and lasting change at home and abroad.
The Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative combines the public policy expertise of the George W. Bush Institute and the academic expertise of SMU. The joint initiative draws from economic policy-making experience at the highest levels and from cutting-edge academic research to identify ideas for promoting innovation, entrepreneurship, and faster, more inclusive growth through global competitiveness and sound immigration policy.
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