By Maia Brown (Street Sense Media) • September 9, 2019
Launched in September of 2017, DC Flex was developed by the DC Department of Human Services and Capital Area Asset Builders as an individualized housing assistance strategy. The program provides families living in apartments in the District with a subsidy that can be used to assist with rental payments or other household needs.
Many people still assume kids belong in the suburbs, where they’ve got yards to play in and great schools to learn in. But good, urban neighborhoods can produce good kids as well.
By Jeb Stenhouse (Community Engagement Committee) • September 9, 2019
Vienna comes to the Washington region, the USDOT unpacks vehicle automation, get your last peek at the Rock Creek East I Livability Study, and more in this week’s events.
In what one Chevy Chase Village board member called “the most contentious and emotionally charged issue” in the community’s history, the village board voted 5 to 2 to disestablish the fenced dog park that has divided the affluent Maryland suburb turn it into a park where dogs must be leashed. (Jessica Contrera / Post)
Maryland State Police are investigating the death of James Lewis Jr., 42, whose body was found after 4:20 a.m. lying in the roadway on Central Avenue at Mills Pond Drive in the Largo area, after apparently being hit by a driver. (Martin Weil / Post)
This month, the District Department of Transportation announced it will publically kick-off design work aimed at extending service on the 2.2-mile DC Streetcar across the Anacostia River to the Benning Road Metro station, effectively doubling the length of the line. (Andrew Giambrone / Curbed)
Three years after the DC Council required the release of all uses of force and stops, the Metropolitan Police Department urged additional analysis on data for 11,600 police stops between July 22 and Aug. 18 of this year that shows 70% of the people stopped were black while 15% were white. (Amanda Michelle Gomez / WCP)
In the first of many markers to be installed across the state, Maryland and Anne Arundel County officials unveiled the state’s first lynching memorial to honor the more than 40 black men who were victims of racial terror lynching in the state between 1854 and 1933. (Dominique Maria Bonessi / WAMU)
For the 17,000 Metro commuters whose regular routes were disrupted or derailed for much of the summer because of the $200 million Blue and Yellow line station improvement project, the reopened stations were met with approval, from the new LED lighting down to the USB ports available in every shelter. (Hannah Natanson / Post)
This week, the Metro Board is set to approve a fourth consecutive one-year extension of the Washington regions’ capital funding agreement that will include amendments adding flexibility and transparency for changes to capital plans and allowing Metro to issue bonds backed by new dedicated funding. (Max Smith / WTOP)
