By Alex Baca (Housing Program Organizer), Nick Finio (Contributor) • August 6, 2019
Newly-released research found that gentrification produces mostly positive effects for original lower-income residents, but that doesn’t mean there are no losers. Rather, neighborhood change is far more complex than the typical narratives let on, and there are a lot of ways to decipher and judge its effects on individuals.
By Dan Malouff (Board of Directors, Editorial Board) • August 6, 2019
Maryland’s MARC train and Virginia’s VRE are very similar regional rail systems. This map shows what they might look like as a single integrated regional network.
By George Kevin Jordan (Editor and Correspondent) • August 6, 2019
What would you do if you were tasked with doubling the number of jobs and raising the number of residents from about 14,000 people to 100,000 in a city? Plus you need to add 113 million square feet of new construction (for reference, Tysons mall is two million square feet). And that city needs to be a bustling urban center at all hours.
An analysis by RentHop found a difference of up to $1,000 per month in rents for one-bedroom apartments by Metro at different stops. The study did not compare other apartment variables, like the size or age of the building. (Michele Lerner / Post)
After a rainy summer brought on potholes, DDOT plans to repair 88 miles of DC roads through the rest of the summer and fall. In addition to fixing major road damage from storms, DDOT is also adding crosswalks and repainting bike lanes. (Max Smith / WTOP)
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority says that the Silver Line Phase II, connecting riders to stops in Loudoun County and Dulles Airport, will open on July 16, 2020, “give or take a few days.” (Gaspard Le Dem / DCist)
The Nobel laureate Toni Morrison graduated from Howard University and later taught English there. At Howard, she began writing the stories that eventually inspired her groundbreaking novel The Bluest Eye.(Mikaela Lefrak / WAMU)
Lyft, which owns Motivate and operates Capital Bikeshare, says that e-bikes will return to CaBi docks this fall. Lyft had to pull e-bikes from San Francisco’s Bay Wheels bikeshare program after two caught fire this summer. (Max Smith / WTOP)
An ART bus with ten passengers on board crashed into several parked cars and a building on Columbia Pike after the driver got out of the bus at the bus stop. (ARL Now)
MoCo councilmembers Tom Hucker, Evan Glass, and Hans Riemer wrote to the County Planning Board to oppose the decision to widen the road from two lanes to four and move the Capital Crescent Trail crossing. The road was narrowed after a cyclist was killed at that trail crossing in 2016. (Caitlynn Peetz / Bethesda Beat. Tip: Chester B.)
Problems with the Rosedale Library’s HVAC system forced it to close nineteen times this year, and six times this summer on high-heat days, when libraries are normally used as cooling centers. Neighbors called on DC’s Department of General Services, which manages the shared library and community center, to fix the problem. (Danya AbdelHameid / DCist)
DC’s Office of Campaign Finance is struggling to answer the question of whether public financing laws allow candidates to collect $2,500 total from immediate family, or $2,500 per family member, after one of the candidates running to unseat Jack Evans for Ward 2 councilmember collected $10,000 in family donations. (Mitch Ryals / WCP)
The Virginia Board of Elections ruled that the incumbent legislator in Culpeper, Nick Frietas, didn’t submit his campaign paperwork in time to be on this fall’s ballot, and failed to file additional paperwork to rectify the problem. (Gregory Schneider / Post)
