Here’s your roundup of this week’s must-read posts: Boost Metrorail ridership with these three (not easy, but powerful) tricks; What do we really know about how the Capital One arena changed Chinatown?; The conversations we need to have about zoning reform; New maps give us a picture of Indigenous regional politics in precolonial times; Plus, Do Something this week about housing accessibility!

Low-cost, short-term strategies for boosting Metrorail ridership

Nick Sementelli (Board of Directors) • April 30, 2024

Boost Metrorail ridership with these three (not easy, but powerful) tricks.

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Arenas don’t revitalize neighborhoods. People do

Dylan DelliSanti (Guest Contributor) • April 29, 2024

As the District prepares to subsidize Monumental’s staying-put in Chinatown, it’s worth contemplating whether developments like the Capital One arena revitalize neighborhoods, or make them more fragile.

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How do we have a national conversation about zoning reform?

Tony Byrne (Guest Contributor) • May 2, 2024

YIMBY wins keep racking up across the United States. Yet any national conversation about the movement has to acknowledge some critical dilemmas that make it hard to offer a universal “solution” to how to run or win a pro-housing campaign. 

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Do Something: The week of April 29, 2024

Dan Reed (Regional Policy Director), Alex Baca (DC Policy Director) • April 30, 2024

This week: the trouble with tax credits, affordable homes for people with disabilities, and see you at one of our DC happy hours in May???

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New maps show how fragmented our regional politics was, even at the dawn of colonialism

David Edmondson (Contributor) • May 1, 2024

Political maps of North America before the colonial period left a lot to be desired. A blogger decided to make better ones, including of the Chesapeake Bay area.

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