Posts tagged Anita Bonds
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The first DC Council candidate debate brings affordable housing, and candidates’ experience levels, to the fore
Battle of the newbies, battle of the wonks: the DC Council debate highlighted passionate appeals about housing affordability, homelessness, and similar issues — as well as the candidates' contrasting experience levels. Keep reading…
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DC’s 2018 primary matters, though the action isn’t the race for mayor
Transportation (including the streetcar, Vision Zero, and bike infrastructure) and affordable housing (think DC's Comprehensive Plan update, historic districts, and debates over what kind of development taxpayers should subsidize) are all big issues in the District's elections this year. Here are the candidates so far. Keep reading…
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This year’s state and local elections will be important, especially in Maryland
This year, voters will make decisions that have profound effects in DC, Virginia, and especially Maryland. We've set up a committee of 20 local volunteers and staff to sort through these candidates and races for you. Keep reading…
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Charles Allen wants more transparency when the public subsidizes parking spaces
Under this proposal, TIFs can go forward with parking — since sometimes that might really be necessary — but the developer has to justify in a transparent way why the parking is needed. Keep reading…
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Hundreds testify that DC needs to #fixTOPA, but does it need to be fixed? If so, how?
Debate is raging in DC over whether the city should alter the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA). Does TOPA need to be fixed? Two GGWash contributors weigh in on the pros and cons of amending the law. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Save our service!
Please keep late night; Rent control corral; Bye, bye Blagden Alley; New bus to the harbor; Not the stadium we ordered; Voter registration reopened; Help guide DC’s future; And…. Keep reading…
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DC has rent control, but if landlords aren’t making a 12% profit they can file a hardship petition and raise rent
Thanks to the Rental Housing Act of 1985, DC has rent control laws that limit how much rents can go up in a given year for anyone living in a building with five or more units and built before 1975. But a lot of people miss out on these protections when landlords use a loophole called a hardship petition. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: On track, sort of
SafeTrack not so smooth; Surge 2 report; Changes brew for ANCs; Rents rise, and too damn high; Shops shift to homes in Reston; Bigger apartments,
lessKeep reading…fewer units for Georgetown; MetroAccess fraud; DC’s 1909 subway plans; And…. Keep reading…
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DC Council postpones fixing an injustice to pedestrians and cyclists because Kenyan McDuffie’s dog ate his homework
I’m on vacation in Copenhagen, but am writing a post anyway )using a Danish keyboard where the punctuation is all in a different place= because I’m sufficiently annoyed at Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie. He seems to have just read a very important bill to protect people walking and bicycling at the very last minute, then asked for an extension because it didn’t… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Hijackings and low points
Metrobus hijacking; Metro’s bad report; Fear of trains; Dethroning slumlords; Make way for the Purple Line; Defeating displacement; No urge to surge; Testing, testing; The new group house; And…. Keep reading…