Posts tagged Housing
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Breakfast links: Track worked
A good weekend to bike; Saved from the tracks; No one wants the middle seat; Move Constitution Avenue?; The rent really is damn high; DC gov employees will get fatter paychecks; Cuccinelli won’t repeal VA transpo funding; Ride Montgomery for Earth Day; Share with brotherly love. Keep reading…
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Candidates want affordable housing, balk at more housing
One of the most significant ways to ensure some affordable housing is to provide more housing. It’s not the only way and not sufficient on its own, but the clear connection between housing supply and price appears lost on multiple candidates for the April 23 DC Council at-large special election. At a Chevy Chase Community Association meeting last week, many candidates… Keep reading…
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Young families increasingly want urban living
More and more young adults in their 20’s and early 30’s are choosing to live in urban areas. Unlike their parents, however, they don’t want to leave when they have kids. While families seeking the urban lifestyle may face some challenges, there are huge opportunities for places that can convince them to stick around. Three panelists from the real estate and… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: A new look
Bethesda is the future; Private Purple; More Metro morsels; Bike around TJ; A new choice in maps; Little houses on the hillside; Play nice; Half-million-dollar highway signs?; Outlaw sustainability?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Here we go again
White House floats 2014 budget; MoCo ped enforcement to target drivers, too; Charter preference lives; Area home prices reach historic highs; “ABRA-ization of development”?; Greenway drivers seeing red; Baker gets partial school control; How’s the gender gap?; And…. Keep reading…
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Vacancy at the Parkway Guest House abandominium
Perched atop a hill overlooking historic Anacostia, tucked behind a new condominium development is an abandominium from an era the city has left behind and this neighborhood is trying to forget. From the 1960s until the last decade the Parkway Guest House was a gathering spot for drugs, prostitution and all forms of illegality. During the 1990s it essentially became “a… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Stay in your lane
MoCo bus lanes get a yes; HOT lanes’ cool reception; Parking cents in Bethesda; Cyclists under attack; Alexandria’s “trolley” defended; What school will go to St. E’s?; 5333 gets permits; Gray: I’m energetic!; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Disappointing
Loudoun takes bike safety more seriously?; Crosswalks are the danger zone; Wait for
affordableKeep reading…public housing; ANC commissioners, pay attention!; Goodbye, L’Enfant monoculture?; Height limit pro and con; Fewer agencies in Wheaton?; VA funds transportation; It comes down to standing; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Rage, rage
Two drivers pull weapons; Driver who hit cyclist takes plea; Cheh wants safety not money; Brown is out; Only one brain cell open at BOE; CaBi grows; Fewer new condos; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: While there’s time
MD Senate funds transportation; Let ANCs talk more?; A stop for super stops; Keep Arlington in the loop as you bike; Anacostia Playhouse gets green light; People want a safer Bethesda; Fences get cut on MBT; Who got tickets?; And…. Keep reading…