Here's our roundup of must-read posts from the week:
Good morning, Greater Washington! Start off your Saturday contemplating a new tool being proposed in DC Council that could help create dedicated affordable housing stock in the District out of what's already there.
Next stop: Union Station, where updates are sorely needed but delays continue. Some are hoping a federal infrastructure push could be just the ticket.
Then travel northwest to Montgomery County, where a single house illuminates the story of a century of segregation and exclusion.
Finally, we end our journey back on the streets of DC, where pedestrian safety advocates are holding a "Sidewalk Palooza" to demand the District fix sidewalks as quickly as it addresses potholes.
By Libby Solomon (Writer and Editor) • June 1, 2021
A bill, dubbed the Generating Affordability in Neighborhoods (GAIN) Act, would create a program through which landlords could apply for funding. In return, those landlords would establish affordability covenants for some of their units, setting them aside for households making less than 50% of the median family income (MFI), and keeping the rents low. The bill was introduced by DC At-Large Councilmember Robert White.
By George Kevin Jordan (Managing Editor) • June 3, 2021
Over the past couple of years the challenges of revamping Union Station into a multimodal transit hub had been all over the regional news. But with a new devout train rider as president, and federal push for more efficient transportation and infrastructure, could Union Station finally be getting the national push to move the project to the finish line.
The history of Montgomery County zoning can be told in one house. The story starts in the 1930s, a few years after Montgomery County adopted its first zoning ordinance. A developer named George Sacks began to build on a large tract of land he owned just south of downtown Bethesda.
By Nick Sementelli (Board of Directors, Advocacy Committee) • June 4, 2021
A group of Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners and community leaders are hosting a series of pedestrian safety walks dubbed Sidewalk Palooza to draw attention to discrepancies in the District Department of Transportation’s (DDOT) scheduled response times for potholes versus broken sidewalks and similar pedestrian needs.
