The Housing Production Trust Fund (HPTF) is a pot of money used to build affordable housing in DC. Since 2001, money from the fund has helped to produce or preserve nearly 10,000 units of affordable housing.
By George Kevin Jordan (Managing Editor) • February 8, 2021
Get on your bike as part of Bike Arlington’s Winter Bike to Work Day 2021. Take an online tour of heritage sites linked to Frederick Douglass, throughout DC and Maryland. Two authors discuss writing about Black families and DC, and more in this week’s virtual urbanist events.
This year marks the ninth in which housing stock in the region has been severely low. Now we’ve hit a new milestone: in December there was only a one-month supply of housing on the market (a balanced market has at least six months). (UrbanTurf)
The District is launching an $11 million effort to impove its overwhelmed unemployment system, adding staff and new technology. (Michael Brice-Saddler / Post)
Prince George’s County has been hard-hit by the coronavirus but has much lower vaccination rates than Talbot County, which is rural and majority white, demonstrating the ways in which vaccine disparities are playing out in practice. (Ovetta Wiggins and Rachel Chason / Post. Tip: JimT)
Many local architects like Amazon’s whimsy helix-shaped headquarters building design, which has been compared to everything from the Tower of Babel to softserve ice cream to the poop emoji. (Jonathan Capriel / Business Journal)
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is introducing a bill in Congress to prevent officials from making the fencing around the Capitol permanent. (Jordan Pascale / DCist)
Pandemic relief initiatives have dulled the immediate blow of eviction this year, but the effects of an eviction filing — from credit scores to court records — stretch far beyond the initial notice. (Kyle Swenson / Post)
Police responded to reports of a white tiger on the side I-270 in Rockville, but discovered it was only a lifelike porcelain figurine perched on a guardrail. It’s unclear who let the cat out of the bag, but for now it will live at a county police station. (Briana Adhikusuma / Bethesda Beat, Martin Weil / Post. Tip: Chester B.)
