Posts tagged Mortgages
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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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Breakfast links: Vacant ethics
Ethics posts go unfilled; Montgomery grows for once; Intersection design still critical; Take the Rapid out of BRT; NPS says no triathlon; A poorly appraised situation; Red-top meters red flagged; Bit of K Street to get an upgrade; And…:. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Unfortunately expected
Hurt cyclist ticketed for nonexistent violation; Costco “beautiful,” says Kwame; Let’s loosen the numbers; Evans has Logan Circle parking plan; Want a grocery? Add housing; Hidden urbanism; Sprawl is really quite big; Promise and peril in public housing; Elect the regionals?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: No funding
Trail defunded; No bill this year; Less of a deduction; Smart growth advocate to HPRB; Transit tweets are negative; New MD website lacks open data; Frederick fights sprawl; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: More reasons to go downtown
MLK Library stays open; Only some cities have a downtown renaissance; Streetcar projects get a waiver; Feds reduce housing subsidies; Real estate articles mention walkability; Maryland Republicans may lose seats; Website measures perceptions of neighborhoods; Metro map is iconic; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Feds slowly seeing the light
GSA will charge for parking; CaBi might come to the Mall, eventually; WMATA raises upheld; Judge tosses charges for cyclist-assaulting driver; Density can be counterintuitive; Mortgage interest deduction is a lopsided subsidy; NYC transit chief quits for “a much better job”; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Speed can be scary
Mt. Vernon Trail not friendly to kids; Speed brings skeletons; This week in hipsterdom; More TOD for PG; More autonomy, more meddling?; Bostonians pinpoint the bus; Midtown Manhattan adds pop-up cafes; Philly reduces sewer overflows; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Changing the status quo
How about some rights?; Does DC have enough police?; Alexandria struggles with waterfront plans; Could mortgage interest deduction go?; PG raises Purple Line gentrification fears; MWAA mandates union hiring; University neighbors have mixed feelings; WABA, FABB join up; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Dispatches from Fairfax
Fairfax of the future; Fairfax County parent forms bike train to school; Fairfax parks win gold; Blacks still struggle with employment in DC; Learning from Fear/Sanity; Should we consult original architects on redesigns?; Motorists usually at fault in bike crashes; Eliminate mortgage interest deduction; Cleveland can’t enforce city regs against big banks. Keep reading…
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Would mortgage tax reform slow sprawl and gentrification?
The co-chairs of the deficit commission created by President Obama released several proposals this week as a starting point for a conversation about deficit reduction. One of the proposals drastically reduces the largest home ownership subsidy, the mortgage interest tax deduction. The proposal would lower the mortgage cap within which mortgage interest is deductible… Keep reading…