This week in our round-up of must-read posts: We analyzed 2024 ANC questionnaire responses; Do Something for performance oversight season; in 2024, CaBi was the fastest growing bikeshare system in the US and the second busiest only to NYC; learn how DMVMoves Task Force is trying to find more secure funding for WMATA; office conversions alone are not enough to bring back population to downtowns; DC could protect small business tenants as they have protected residential tenants; reconciling the complicated emotions surrounding one's hometown.

ANC-ya, 2024: A wrap-up of our Advisory Neighborhood Commission questionnaire data and endorsements

Alex Baca (DC Policy Director) • January 31, 2025

Over 150 Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner candidates responded to our 2024 candidate questionnaire. We endorsed over 100 candidates, and most of them won. And that’s a (slightly belated) wrap on the 2024 season.

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Do Something: The week of January 27, 2025

Dan Reed (Regional Policy Director), Alex Baca (DC Policy Director) • January 31, 2025

This week: it’s performance oversight season in DC; single-stair in Maryland; and one weird trick to lower home prices in Montgomery County.

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Bikeshare Beat: Capital Bikeshare records over 6.1 million rides in 2024, fastest growing system in US

Samuel Littauer (Contributor) • January 29, 2025

After an unprecedented surge in ridership in 2024, CaBi is the fastest-growing bikesharing system in the country, and second-busiest service to New York City’s Citibike. Plus, Lime breaks its own ridership record.

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Securing WMATA’s future: The role of the DMVMoves Task Force

Cynthea Wang (Intern) • January 30, 2025

Get to know the DMVMoves Task Force: What do they do? Who’s on it? And why it should matter to residents of the region. 

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Get the crowd back together: office conversions won’t be enough to rebuild downtowns’ population density

Payton Chung (Board of Directors) • January 28, 2025

Converting existing office buildings to residences won’t be enough to stop the “urban doom loop,” because apartment buildings contain many fewer people than similarly sized office buildings do.

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DC has been a leader in residential tenant protections. Here’s how it could better protect small business tenants

Katy June-Friesen, Willow Lung-Amam, Lauren Meyer • January 29, 2025

DC has cutting-edge, progressive residential anti-displacement protections. Extending some of these to commercial tenants could help neighborhood small businesses survive, thereby reducing displacement. 

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What I think about when I think about my hometown

Mike English (Guest Contributor) • January 27, 2025

There can be a tension between our nostalgia for our hometowns and the problems we see in our later years. It’s hard to face that our childhoods, and a fairly privileged one in my case, may well have come at the expense of others in a way we didn’t appreciate at the time.

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