Posts tagged Affordable Housing
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One City plan sets ambitious goals, and some feebler ones
Mayor Gray released a “One City Action Plan,” a year in the making, which lays out goals and objectives for his administration across almost many areas. It pushes for serious and challenging improvements in education, while in other areas such as transportation, it doesn’t reach as high. Education Education has always been a top priority for Mayor Gray,… Keep reading…
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Inclusionary zoning will soon be making a difference in DC
Nearly 3 years after regulations were finalized, DC’s inclusionary zoning (IZ) program is beginning to have a positive effect on affordable housing stock in the city. While the program has suffered a slow start up because of grandfathering and the recession’s effect on residential development, the program’s 3rd annual report suggests that IZ in… Keep reading…
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Morning links: More aftermath
A week to power?; Ads for CaBi; No streetcar for affordable housing?; How to succeed in public housing; Fewer foreclosure sales; VA police staying secret; Dominion dabs. Keep reading…
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Urbanist economists should cheer inclusionary zoning
Is inclusionary zoning just another inefficient government subsidy? Not at all. It’s actually a clever program that creates some permanent affordable housing and also builds political support for more density. Last week, Matt Yglesias expressed reservations about DC’s inclusionary zoning law. IZ lets developers of apartment and condo buildings over… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Not like it used to be
The action is in the core; Verizon Center aims for new signage; Bikeshare survey says; New cars won’t come in time; Do they need the money?; Another “power grab”; Who’s running for what?; Chicago is stumbling; Rio’s growing pains; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend Links: Take a gamble
MGM comes to the Potomac?; CaBi users not wearing helmets; Bhatt talks pedestrian safety; FBI informant runing for Council; IZ still a trickle; Prince George’s Plaza gets density; Am I condemned to gentrify?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast Links: Bring the buses
Buses growing more quickly than rail; It’s affordable, but not mortgagable; What’s up with Walter Reed; District budget approved; Council shuffle creates new development committee; Memorial Circle still dangerous; What is the Corcoran thinking?; Time running out on transpo bill; How Battery Park City became rich. Keep reading…
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Public land deals give hot neighborhoods affordable housing
Someone sitting in the lively plaza in the heart of Columbia Heights or enjoying a bite to eat at 5th & K’s Busboys and Poets might not know that the shiny new apartment buildings nearby house both well-off residents and and those earning modest to very low incomes. The new mixed-income buildings, built on formerly city-owned land, contain 20-35% affordable housing that… Keep reading…
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Ask Kwame to keep the West End housing deal affordable
Unless DC Council Chairman Kwame Brown reverses course, the long-awaited replacement of the West End Library and fire station will move forward without the originally-promised affordable housing. Please Tell Chairman Brown to fund West End affordable housing. Long planned as a 52-unit project of very affordable apartments for those earning up to 60% of area median… Keep reading…
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Why the angst over accessory dwellings?
While DC’s zoning update discourse has bizarrely revolved thus far around a small group of opponents spreading false information, there are serious policy differences to genuinely debate. One is the proposal to allow accessory dwellings in single-family zones in DC and Montgomery County. Planning departments in both jurisdictions want to follow many other places… Keep reading…