Posts about Housing
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Breakfast links: Affordable housing
Affordable housing debate; What affordable housing?; No more Half Street; Closing sidewalks in Bethesda; “Woods” against the bus; Cycling incidents go down; America’s changing suburbs; Metro pedestrian bridge coming in January; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Public housing redevelopment
A new neighborhood in Brentwood; Empty in Anacostia; FBI not near the Metro?; Flat is where it’s at; Cheh wants Uber legal; Minimum wage to $8.40; Purple Line OK in Bethesda?; Buses to the curb, please; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Stay safe
“Intersection of Doom” improves; Streetcar safety for students; FBI for statehood; DHS HQ a go; Public finance for MoCo campaigns; Penn Ave, AdMo are great; MARTA on the upswing; Preposterous Purple Line posturing; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Getting to sports
Clawed pays for Screech; What about soccer?; Silver lining for bike parking; Less money from cameras; Charter school turnaround; Stop for the hand; Shipping container complex; No bar here; Transit strife; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Changes in the neighborhood
To pop or not to pop; Navy Yard a hit; Play place DC; Benefits for Buzzard Point; Redeveloping Grimke; Lake of debate; Dining outside gets easier in DC; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Big projects
Why “superstops” were halted; Bethesda Metro getting new escalators; Car-free every day; DC homebuyer tax credit returns?; Parking lot to retail; Pedestrian-friendly Prince George’s; Cap the price; Equal rights for DC; This genius doesn’t drive. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: In and out of Arlington
Housing or parks?; County flight; Vacant in Virginia; Taxicab share decreasing; Cycle law enforcement; Transit as a social good; And…. Keep reading…
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DC sells valuable land, but loses interest in using it to create affordable housing
Since 2000, the District has generally required that when it sells publicly-owned land, part of the deal include new affordable housing for lower-income residents. But more recently, that commitment has waned. A bill in the DC Council could rejuvenate it by requiring affordable housing in city land development deals. The trend of weakening the city’s commitment to… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Car-freedom
Car-Free Day is today!; Put the phone down; The future of clean transport; Fairfax County bicycle plan almost ready; Two birds, one stone; River flows change MD/VA border; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bowser ahead early
Bowser ahead in early poll; Area economy not faring well; Olympics march builds up; Metro to the playoffs; Art needed for Purple Line; Arlington streetcar moves forward; Redevelopment starts in Glenmont; Non-retail retail?; Where the US is like Scotland; And…. Keep reading…