Posts about Housing
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Single-family homes are the minority in Montgomery County
People often think of Montgomery County as a place where you go to buy a big house with a yard, and in many areas that’s still the case. But most households live in townhomes or apartments, and that share will only increase in the future. There are nearly 376,000 homes in Montgomery County according to the 2008-2012 American Community Survey. Less than half, or 48.5% are single-family… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Federal damage
The racist feds; The feds won’t build; Transit still suffers; Flintbrook?; Stop the Idaho Stop?; See the kid behind you; Reckless bus drivers; The chameleonic condo; Stops will get screens; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Gentrification and its discontents
Cui bono; Gentrification is an anomaly; Eminent domain for DC United?; What’s the opposite of a crime wave?; Bike safety stats; The fastest grower is…; McAuliffe likes lanes; Park(ing) shortage; 9/10 of the law; And…. Keep reading…
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Worried about DC gentrification? A new bill would speed it up and lose affordable housing
As housing prices rise, the few affordable units in booming neighborhoods become even more important. But a new bill in the DC Council would cut the period of time when such a unit has to remain affordable, removing affordable housing in some of DC’s fastest-changing neighborhoods. Right now, when the city subsidizes a new housing unit for sale, that unit has to remain affordable… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Architects imagine
What MLK could look like; Skyscrapers along The Mall?; Food trucks coming to Alexandria; Older buildings are better economically; Where the (political) party is; If zoning were nationalized; Parking pilot succeeds; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Le Déluge
Bike To Work In The Rain Day; Did you bike?; How many bike, and who?; How to make a Dutch turn; Narrower is better?; Valet racking; Paint it red; Time for some shut-eye; Trolling for shrimp; Pays to be late; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Malign neglect
Public housing demolition by neglect; Homeless in DC; Intersection of less-certain doom; The price of control; Sticker shock; Brookland bidding war; Hide your cans; Until it goes “click”; And…. Keep reading…
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In 1979, was your neighborhood “sound” or “distressed”?
DC looked very different in 1979. A map of neighborhood housing conditions shows just how much. In many neighborhoods in Washington now in high demand, 35 years ago the housing stock was in danger. Keep reading…
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Ask GGW: Is living farther out a bad investment?
Reader Frank, currently a teacher in DC who lives in Annandale, writes in with a question: We are considering a move to Haymarket, Virginia. From what we can see, it’s a nice small town with some rural outlying areas, but isn’t so far removed from civilization that we’d feel isolated. As a teacher, I am pretty mobile. Currently we live in Annandale… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Victims of the road
Cycling hit on Bike to School Day; Hit-and-run gets 6 months; Intersection of doom; Did confusion kill?; Transit first in MoCo; Right to play; Heights stay; Returning home; Diversifying the housing stock; Can’t build there. Keep reading…