Posts by Alan Zibel — Guest Contributor

Alan Zibel works as a nonprofit researcher and writer for Public Citizen, the consumer advocacy group in DC. He is a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and the Associated Press, where he covered housing and financial regulation. He lives in Takoma Park with his family.

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  Can Takoma Park embrace a progressive housing policy?

  HousingBy Alan Zibel (Guest Contributor), David Daddio (Contributor) October 31, 2018 28

  This fight over the 1.4-acre Takoma Junction site took on an outsized relevance in this famously progressive, educated, and argumentative city. What started as a mundane debate about a relatively modest commercial development evolved into a gentrification “proxy war” and an intense struggle over the city’s values.  Keep reading…