Posts about Housing
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Learn important concepts in designing buildings from an HBO series
HBO’s miniseries Show Me a Hero depicts a fight over affordable housing in Yonkers, New York in the 1980s. It raises many important issues about race relations and the reality of politics. It also teaches us something about architecture and how the design of buildings affects crime. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Spin
Crisis “management”; Cracks slow construction; Safety drill not up to snuff; What to do about murders?; More bikes, less congestion; Free rides for kids; A fair housing fix; Transportation conundrum; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Purple proceeding
Good to go; E-ticket, please!; Crime time; All accesss; Power off; Rolling in the dough; Supersized; Pay a little, get a lot; Asheville’s (un)affordability; And…. Keep reading…
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The lion’s share of DC’s new housing is only going in one part of the city
Over the last decade, DC has built 13% less housing than its Comprehensive Plan calls for. Of the new housing that is going up, most of it is confined to the central city even though the plan recommends only 30% go there. Meanwhile, most parts of the District are building little or no new housing. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Faster, faster, slower, slower
Pick up the pace; Slow down for the children; The bus stops here; Exurban transit; You really gotta shovel this year; Pilgrims on a train; Fighting inequality; Studying Freddie Gray; Help us, Congress. Keep reading…
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Opposition to housing in HBO’s “Show Me a Hero” sounds eerily familiar
In the second episode of the miniseries Show Me a Hero, which premiered on HBO last Sunday, angry crowds — all white — protest at a Yonkers, NY city council meeting discussing a plan to put a measly 200 low-income households in the more affluent parts of the city. Many people watching surely believe that they wouldn’t be throwing diapers at the council if they had been in Yonkers… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Spring forward
The SSTC, finally!; Crime keeps climbing; Stagnating rents; What’s next for White Flint; Cities bring safer cycling; Remembering Marion Barry; Make the peds pay; Houston, we have a solution; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: She’s got a ticket to ride
Don’t cross the Potomac; Ride On or not; Split or ride alone; Death on the road; Pershing Park proposals; Count them; Housing vouchers; Cash money; Hot stations; Fun fun fun. Keep reading…
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A NoMa cooperative hopes to redevelop mixed-income housing more successfully than DC’s past attempts
A 1968 experiment in cooperative low-income housing near DC’s NoMa neighborhood will soon be the site of a large redevelopment project. The owners plan to add new apartments and retail while preserving places to live for current residents of the community. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: How we house
Housing boom; Rent disparity; Commutes between counties; A history of public pools; Buses for the region; The name stays; Football facility fail; And…. Keep reading…