Posts tagged Public Housing
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GGWash Picks of 2023: Greenbelt and Langston Terrace planners promised quality housing — and to improve residents’ morality
The unique New Deal planned communities were designed to address DC’s acute housing shortage in the 1930s and uplift the virtue of residents, but ultimately failed to live up to their full promise. Keep reading…
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Do Something: The week of December 4, 2023
This week: here’s how you can Do Something about fairer taxes in DC, making it easier to build affordable homes in Montgomery County, and what could be a big election in Alexandria next year. Keep reading…
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Greenbelt and Langston Terrace planners promised quality housing — and to improve residents’ morality
The unique New Deal planned communities were designed to address DC’s acute housing shortage in the 1930s and uplift the virtue of residents, but ultimately failed to live up to their full promise. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Almost a quarter of DCHA housing units remain vacant
25% of DC public housing units remain vacant. Region will miss its 2025 deadline to clean up the Chesapeake Bay. Prince George’s County Council holds hearing on plan to improve pedestrian and bicycle access around West Hyattsville Metro station. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Growth prompts area neighborhoods to build Metro entrances in advance
Area neighborhoods are planning for new Metro entrances. After a damning federal audit of DCHA, some leaders are calling for the agency to be overhauled. Protesters shut down Beltway in Maryland for climate. Keep reading…
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Why privatization has become the public housing solution du jour
Here is how the public sector shifted responsibility for offering “a decent home and a suitable living environment” for low-income families back to the private sector. Keep reading…
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How public housing was destined to fail
While the US public housing system may have started off with the intention of providing quality homes to low income and vulnerable populations, those efforts were quickly dashed by how the program was created and managed. Keep reading…
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Greenleaf residents are left on edge as build-first redevelopment plan falls apart
The DC Housing Authority selected a co-development team including Pennrose, EYA and Bozzuto, in November 2020, to redevelop the 15-acre Greenleaf Gardens housing community in Southwest. DCHA’s 180-day negotiation period with the co-development team is now in its last trimester. At this point, both of the build-first options previously identified for the redevelopment of Greenleaf Gardens are in doubt, and the powers that be are pushing for a different approach. What happened? Keep reading…
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The Faircloth Amendment, explained
Last summer, the House of Representatives passed the Moving Forward Act, a $1.5 trillion plan to upgrade the national infrastructure and combat climate change by reducing demand for fossil fuels. The bill incorporated a handful of amendments related to housing and homelessness offered by a group of Congressional Democrats. One of those amendments would have repealed the Faircloth Amendment, a 1990s-era rule that prevents the expansion of public housing in the United States. But what exactly is the Faircloth Amendment and why is there so much debate around the subject? Keep reading…
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How has privatization of public housing fared in DC?
Since being the site of the country’s first all-Black public housing development at Langston Terrace Dwellings, DC has been one of many centers for innovative approaches to public housing, both through adoption and implementation of newer federal programs, and through initiatives led by the DC Housing Authority (DCHA). Here is how privatization of public housing has played out in the District. Keep reading…