Anacostia River cleanup efforts continue, after swim events were ...
Sep 30, 2024 · Members of the DC Strokes rowing team practice near the Frederick Douglass Bridge. Image by the author. An event planned for this past summer would have been the first legal swim in the Anacostia River in over 50 years.
DC’s public housing agency is making halting progress, but much …
Oct 10, 2024 · DC Housing Authority opened up a downtown office earlier this year. Image by DC Housing Authority.. In October 2022, a damning audit of DC’s Housing Authority identified 82 violations of federal policies. Two years later, the DCHA is making only halting progress.
Regional ruminations on display at the 2024 Capital Region ...
Dec 6, 2024 · We’re presuming attendees took WMATA on the way to the forum. Image by MW Transit Photos. used with permission.. On a brisk Wednesday morning in November 2024, representatives from the worlds of government, transportation, and business met at the Martin Luther King, Jr., library in downtown DC for the seventh annual Capital Region Transportation Forum, to discuss the present and future of ...
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Decode the interstates: What highway numbers actually mean
Sep 12, 2019 · Image by the author. Why is I-95 named I-95? What about I-395, or I-270, or I-66? There’s a logical system behind it all, and it’s easy to learn.
Gentrification is beneficial on average, studies say. That doesn’t …
Aug 6, 2019 · Nick Finio is the Associate Director of the National Center for Smart Growth at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he is also a PhD Candidate in Urban and Regional Planning. His dissertation is focused on gentrification in the DC area and elsewhere. At NCSG, he works on a variety of projects, including Purple Line …
ATU Local 689 answers your questions – Greater Greater Washington
Mar 27, 2024 · A training Metrobus at Farragut Square by Adam Fagen licensed under Creative Commons.. Editor’s note: We asked our supporters to submit any questions they had for Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 689, which represents transit workers in …
Transit Diary: Councilmember Charles Allen shares his Week …
Oct 30, 2024 · Boarding the 36 Metrobus to Potomac Park. Image by the author. Greater Greater Washington and the DC Transportation Equity Network hosted the Week Without Driving from September 30 to October 6, 2024. The campaign invites those with the option to drive to learn firsthand the challenges that nondrivers face to help build more accessible, inclusive communities for …
The Area Median Income (AMI), explained – Greater Greater …
Sep 1, 2016 · There are a number of programs used to create affordable housing in the region, including housing vouchers, inclusionary zoning, low-income housing tax credits and public housing. Each of these programs use a central statistic — the area median income, or AMI — to determine whether families are eligible for the program.
Anonymous NIMBYs attempt to keep unhoused neighbors in the …
Nov 1, 2024 · Image by Miriam’s Kitchen used with permission.. Nearly one year after its originally intended opening date of November 2023, the District is on the cusp of opening the doors of the Aston, a new bridge housing facility in the West End neighborhood of Ward 2.