Do Something: The week of February 12, 2024
Here’s your roundup of this week’s must-read posts: Do Something for fire safety in Silver Spring; how you can help bring Moore Housing to Maryland; How the DMV is addressing Metro’s missing millions; DC performance oversight trainings recapped; plus, a history of DC’s brutalist architecture.
Action alert: Maryland could take some huge steps to tackling its housing shortage and skyrocketing home prices, but only with your help! Find out below. |
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Alex Baca (DC Policy Director), Dan Reed (Regional Policy Director) • February 14, 2024
This week, here’s how you can Do Something about Moore Housing in Maryland (we really need your help!); bus priority on Columbia Road and H Street NE; accessory apartments in Virginia; and an important bill about fire safety.
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Dan Reed (Regional Policy Director) • February 12, 2024
We want Governor Moore to be successful in getting more homes built and bringing down Maryland’s high housing costs. That’s why we’re proposing some amendments, and we’re asking for your help to build support for them.
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Wyatt Gordon (Contributor) • February 15, 2024
As Metro inches toward a fiscal cliff that would force it to cut services dramatically, we unpack where the major players stand on filling the short-term funding gap.
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Alex Baca (DC Policy Director) • February 13, 2024
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Watch our 2024 performance oversight training and decide if your oversight-testimony style is supporter, tone-setter, or government-knower.
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S. D. Hodell (Guest Contributor) • February 14, 2024
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Architects and politicians have argued about what DC’s modern federal buildings should look like for decades, with the “winners” becoming semi-permanent fixtures of our urban landscape.
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