Posts tagged Affordable Housing
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Breakfast links: What people want
No retail at Fairgrounds; What would you build?; MoCo BRT sleek, ambitious; Rent hard to control; Pay for school; Too much conflict and not enough; Rush+ gets limelight; Less is more; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Get educated
The Henderson plan; When to mix, when to separate; UIP helps, hurts affordable housing; Barracks Row getting more barracks; Pedicab detante solidifies; Williams on top; CSI: Blog; Build a bridge; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Deeply divided
Virginia Senate divided over Silver Line; Maryland divided over special session; Council vs. mayor; LivingSocial gets LivingSocial-type deal on taxes; Buses down; Taller building gets OK; Kids allowed to walk to school; Fix DC elections; Peck wrongly sent packing?; And…. Keep reading…
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Protect DC’s Housing Production Trust Fund
The Housing Production Trust Fund, DC’s premier tool for producing and preserving affordable housing, is nearing extinction. Facing 2 years of cuts from Mayor Gray totaling $38 million, and apathy toward undoing this decision from the DC Council, the Trust Fund is dwindling into irrelevance. The Trust Fund has created over 7000 homes in its 10-year history,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Raise the roof
Raise the height limit?; Wish list would restore cuts, maybe; Metro no, rural roads yes; Innovation gets grants; Forest Glen zoned for failure; Easy as 3-1-1; Back to the land in the city; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Harder and easier with wheels
DC cycle tracks get boost; Metro sort of accessible; Biddle not out yet; In not shocking news; VDOT selling housing properties; No pedestrian plaza on 10th; Dupont parking meeting roundup; Legal to exclude reporters in Loudoun?; Have 8 hours to kill?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Help wanted
Help wanted at Metro; Help wanted on ethics board; A blanket of traffic cameras; Henderson is chancellor, not Kwame Brown; No Bethesda vs. Wheaton; Cars over veggies; Affordable housing needed; Garvey wins; And…. Keep reading…
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Gray budget boosts streetcar, traffic cameras; cuts housing
Mayor Gray released his proposed budget for the next fiscal year this morning. A source sent along some pictures of slides from the presentation. It shows a significant commitment to streetcars and better traffic enforcement, but puts a tax break above building new housing. Keep reading…
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To remain affordable, Alexandria must get creative
Rents in Alexandria are skyrocketing. Virginia’s state laws don’t make it easy to create affordable housing for people earning less than the area median income, so the city has to think outside the box. True sustainability means that we provide housing options that mirror our workforce. This reduces people’s commute times, and cuts down on regional congestion. Keep reading…
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As rents rise, Alexandria tackles affordable housing challenge
The diminishing quantity of housing for middle and low-income workers in Alexandria is reaching epic levels. According to a recent study by the Center for Housing Policy our region is seeing a dramatic increase in the number of families spending over 50% of their monthly income on rent. Unchecked, this trend will substantially hamper the economic and cultural diversity that defines… Keep reading…