& more in this week's round-up of posts.
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This week's must-read posts: Everything you ever wanted to know about why you're sneezing all the dang time; The DC Department of Buildings gives us a peek behind the veil of residential inspections; Purple Line pics!; Louder for the folks in the back: Encampment clearings don't reduce homelessness; Why residents, and the climate, are paying more for energy; Inside Virginia's new law to limit dangerous speeding; ...and one of our April Fool's posts inspires earnest architectural reflections.
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Payton Chung (Board of Directors) • April 7, 2025
H-O-T-T-O-O-A-K: The air is warming, the blossoms are showing off, and everyone you know is sneezing. You might have heard seasonal allergies blamed on “botanical sexism”—but that’s not how trees work.
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Keith David Parsons (Guest Contributor) • April 9, 2025
The Department of Buildings’ Building Connections series is back with the first of a three-part miniseries on housing and property maintenance inspections.
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Dan Reed (Regional Policy Director) • April 8, 2025
The Purple Line is nearly three-quarters done, say officials from the Maryland Transit Administration, and they’ve got photos to prove it. So many photos.
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Susannah Petitt • April 8, 2025
The Trump administration says it wants to eliminate homeless encampments in DC to make the District “clean” and “safe”. But personal stories from the Point-In-Time Count underscore what research tells us: clearing encampments displaces people from specific places, and does nothing to stop homelessness.
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Mark Rodeffer • April 9, 2025
DC residents don’t just face high housing costs: utility companies, too, keep raising costs to consumers, with little to show for in terms of helping DC meet its climate commitments. Residents can ask the Public Service Commission to intervene using its regulatory powers this month at a series of public hearings.
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Aaron Short • April 10, 2025
A Virginia law allowing judges to mandate speed limiters in dangerous drivers’ vehicles could spark similar legislation regulating excessive speeding in other states.
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Addison Del Mastro (Contributor) • April 10, 2025
Going to the mattresses: our April Fool’s joke about a Bedding Barn up for historic preservation status led a writer to take a closer look at the history of these barn-shaped bedding buildings in the ‘burbs.
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