Posts tagged Housing
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Breakfast links: Audits for all
On the clock; Don’t forget the buses!; Failure to communicate; “No” at any cost; Sidewalk cycling?; Finding the funding; Fair housing?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Government intervention
Hard times for spies; Summer jobs; In the dark; Bus improvements; Help or hinder?; Not all Millennials; Ye olde streetcar. Keep reading…
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Think the rent’s too high? Try your hand at managing a landlord’s budget
The rents in the brand-new apartment buildings all around town have caused some serious sticker shock. If you’ve wondered just how the rent got to be so damn high, you might find a few minutes with a new online game to be instructive. ”Inside the Rent,” created by New York City’s Citizens Housing & Planning Council, lets you examine the construction… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Short-sighted
Congress slights Metro; Lost in translation; Purple path; Imminent deal; Unlimited parking; Housing queue; Heating up; Land, call, ride; Clean up, clean up; And…. Keep reading…
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Lack of good housing has pushed 338,000 DC residents to move away
DC’s population is rising. But amid that rise, hundreds of thousands of people have come or gone since the year 2000. Among those who have left, inadequate housing is by far the biggest single reason. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Train trouble
Midday single-tracking and more; An open invitation; Bus blight?; Pot prohibitions stay in place; Waterfront woes; Affordable housing everywhere; Growing apart; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Virginia votes
Silberberg for Alexandria; The victors in Arlington and Fairfax; No love for nominee; Share and yield; Green is gold; Get to work; WMATA sued for negligence; Love thy neighbor; Mapping markets; Riot repair; Park on, New Hampshire; And…. Keep reading…
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Rowhouse “pop-up” restrictions get much stricter at the eleventh hour
Jim, a homeowner in Columbia Heights who wants to add onto his row house, might be in trouble. New rules limiting homeowners’ ability to divide a house into more than two units or build a “pop-up” on top just got even stricter as DC’s Zoning Commission took its final vote. Responding to neighborhood outcry about row houses being converted into three,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Goal for DC
United stays in DC; Fix it; Vote, Virginia!; DC Water on the river; See you in court; Red line not maglev; Not so fast; MoCo likes bikes; Come for the jobs; And…. Keep reading…
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DC’s affordable housing programs are slated to get more money than ever before
This year’s DC budget includes the most funding ever for affordable housing programs: $222 million. Here’s how the money will be spent: Nearly half of the funds, $100 million, will go into the Housing Production Trust Fund (HPTF). This will pay to renovate or create 1,000 homes for low income households. Next year’s funding is roughly double this year’s… Keep reading…