What could the region do to ensure WMATA not only survives but thrives?
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Here's your round up of this week's must read posts: Getting serious about Metro's money: how can we end the cycle of fiscal shortfalls? The fourth part in our series about affordable housing development looks at the mismatch between public financing and land sales, and how that restricts building in wealthy neighborhoods. Plus, post-pandemic, more people are dying due to impaired driving; let's look behind the data.
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Wyatt Gordon (Contributor) • April 22, 2024
The District, Maryland, and Virginia look set to fill WMATA’s short-term budget gap. But the region needs a plan for ensuring the agency is financially sustainable in the long term. What are the options?
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Patrick McAnaney • April 24, 2024
Building a new building is often a slow process, and affordable housing developers navigate it with an additional twist: when working through a competitive government funding process, it takes an especially long time to close on financing.
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Dan Reed (Regional Policy Director), Alex Baca (DC Policy Director) • April 25, 2024
This week on Do Something: upzoning in Chevy Chase DC; it’s not just about bike lanes on Connecticut Avenue; how to get safer streets and social housing in Montgomery County; and getting ready for the primary in DC and Virginia.
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Matthew Koehler (Contributor) • April 23, 2024
Most of the country has seen decreases in fatalities due to impaired driving, but not the Washington region, according to a report from the Council of Governments. Is a lack of enforcement part of the problem?
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