Posts about Development
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Breakfast links: Deadly fire in Silver Spring
Silver Spring up in flames; Bike lanes? ANC says no thanks; How to make office parks work; Purple still pushing along; Columbia Heights on crime; Another MetroAccess assault; No PAC bump; Can’t contain shipping container homes; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: More Metro closures coming
Shut down over single tracking; The roots of racism in Baltimore; Fast v. fast casual; MetroAccess assault; Fatal Metrobus collision; Record high housing; The world’s best walk; And…; Transportation job openings. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: “Arrest all the black hoodies”
Discrimination in Charm City; Unsafe space; Poor performance, no penalties; Michigan Park housing moves forward; Not your average box; Officials sound off on Metro; A year without a mayor?; Swamp things. Keep reading…
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Affordable housing agency surprises everyone by opposing more-affordable housing at one Eckington development
A large new development in Eckington will go up with fewer “deeply affordable” units than developers planned thanks to an unexpected objection from DC’s Department of Housing and Community Development. The agency didn’t want to have units doled out outside its existing system, even at the expense of some affordability. Keep reading…
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DC’s affordable housing fund isn’t doing enough for low-income residents, an audit says
The District’s Housing Production Trust Fund is a program run by the city to fund and build affordable housing, which helps some of DC’s poorest families live in one of the country’s most expensive housing markets. A recent audit, however, says that too little money is going to the lowest-income residents. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Gymnastics, diving, and urban planning?
Planning’s Olympic moment; Not the usual Fairfax news; Orange you going to resign; Blind referee’s Purple call; Streetcar’s expectations exceeded; Nursing home sale fallout; The price of walkability; Art before development; Help for MoCo parents; Pokémon’s location bias; Boon for boomer landlords. Keep reading…
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National links: How do bikes work? We don’t really know…
Physicists disagree on what exactly makes bikes work. Kansas City opened a streetcar line earlier this year, and it’s doing really well. A number of US companies are moving parts of their businesses into downtowns but keeping other parts in less urban places. Check out what’s happening around the country (and beyond) in transportation, land use, and other related areas! Bicycles. Keep reading…
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Can anyone build affordable housing without public money?
The US has less affordable housing than it needs, and that’s because of a fundamental problem: the cost of building and operating affordable units adds up to more than what those units bring in in rent. The Urban Institute launched a tool that illustrates this problem first-hand. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Better inspections, fewer derailments
Derailed by missing inspections; Next steps for the Purple Line; Tunnel to NoMa; Orange’s ethics; Metro cuts from data feed; Pedestrian killed in Old Town; England <3 traffic circles; Sea rise, homes under tide; Like data? Work for Metro!. Keep reading…
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“Ludicrous” ruling could delay or scuttle the Purple Line
Just four days before Maryland was set to sign a key agreement to build the Purple Line, a federal judge blocked the project, saying declining Metro ridership requires re-studying all of the projections for the light rail line from Bethesda to New Carrollton (which will not be built or operated by WMATA). Keep reading…