By Chelsea Allinger (Executive Director), Kristin Frontiera (Guest Contributor), Christy Kwan (Guest Contributor) • September 15, 2021
The District has the resources, the tools, and the expertise to make every intersection in this city safe for people—regardless of race, income, age, gender, or ability—to cross on foot, on a bike, in a stroller, or in a wheelchair.
By Will Schick (Street Sense Media) • September 14, 2021
Housing and disability rights advocates have long faulted DCHA for a lack of responsiveness to requests for information as well as to residents’ needs. The failings, they say, make it even more difficult for people with disabilities and seniors to live in public housing as well as to navigate the system itself.
More than 2,200 housing units, many of them affordable, are planned for the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center campus, where a mixed-use development is under construction. Now a once cloistered part of Northwest DC has children playing on a playground and residents beginning to move in. (Martin Austermuhle / DCist)
Legislation proposed in the Montgomery County Council would extend the county’s pandemic rent stabilization bill, which prevents landlords from raising rents above a set amount or charging late fees, through August next year. (Steve Bohnel / Bethesda Beat)
As Metro prepares to extend the Silver Line in 2022, Herndon expects a new nearby stop to bring growth and change. Washington Business Journal offers a tour of the town. (Tristan Navera / Business Journal)
5-year-old Allison Hart was struck and killed by the driver of a van in Brookland while riding a bike Monday night. The van was operating as a DC Neighborhood Connect van, a shared shuttle service run by DC’s Department of For-Hire Vehicles. (Post)
A Washington Metrorail Safety Commission audit found that Metro doesn’t follow proper safety procedures when maintaining its rail cars, leading to safety issues like rail cars separating. The audit is the commission’s fifth this year. (Justin George / Post)
DC is requiring residents of a homeless encampment in NoMa to clear out their belongings by September 27. That encampment and two others are part of a new program that DC officials say includes intensive case management and expedited access to permanent supportive housing. Some longtime residents, however, suspect the move is related to new shops and housing nearby, and others worry about a process that bypasses the waitlist for housing. (Kyle Cooper / WTOP, Mark Segraves / NBC4)
