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Film on housing solutions… Mary Bolton 202-390-1208 Begin forwarded message: > From: Charles Bolton > Date: April 11, 2019 at 2:09:29 PM EDT > To: Mary.bolton@comcast.net > Subject: Housing… > > Check out documentary “Who Owns New Zealand Now?” By Red Sky Film and TV. Ties the shift of housing for people to housing for […]
Where Homeownership Starts at $1 Per Square Foot by Carla Bell — YES! Magazine
www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/tiny-house-village-home-equity-homelessness-20190409/ Where Homeownership Starts at $1 Per Square Foot A tiny house program in Detroit helps people avoid homelessness, and get a head start on building equity. posted Apr 09, 2019 The first tiny home before it was occupied by its first resident. Nonprofit Cass Tiny Home Development offers people with low incomes a safety […]
Landlords exploit the poor, study finds – Big Think
bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/poverty-rent Mary Bolton 202-390-1208
Chairwoman Waters Introduces Bill to End Homelessness in America | BlackPressUSA | BlackPressUSA
www.blackpressusa.com/chairwoman-waters-introduces-bill-to-end-homelessness-in-america/ Mary Bolton 202-390-1208
Does DC’s Zoning Code Lack Protections for Solar Panels?
dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/does-dc-zoning-code-lack-protections-for-solar-panels-from-new-construction/15231 Mary Bolton 202-390-1208
D.C. wastes tax dollars on ‘ineffective’ tax incentive programs: report – Curbed DC
dc.curbed.com/2019/3/27/18284199/dc-economic-development-incentives-qhtc-groceries-taxes Report: D.C. is wasting millions of tax dollars annually on ‘ineffective’ incentive programs The District should change or scrap certain expenditures for economic development, a local think tank argues Andrew Giambrone Mar 27, 2019, 4:15pm EDT Downtown D.C. (2018) mervas/Shutterstock Gone are the days of D.C.’s financial control board, when the District’s finances were […]
Prior to implementing a decade-old law with new powers to preserve affordable housing, DC government is still finalizing a list of qualified developers – TheDCLine.org
thedcline.org/2019/04/05/prior-to-implementing-a-decade-old-law-with-new-powers-to-preserve-affordable-housing-dc-government-is-still-finalizing-a-list-of-qualified-developers/ Mary Bolton 202-390-1208
More Than A Decade Later, Some Former D.C. Public Housing Residents Worry If They’ll Ever Return | WAMU
wamu.org/story/19/04/08/more-than-a-decade-later-some-former-d-c-public-housing-residents-worry-if-theyll-ever-return/#.XKt2IaQpDYW More Than A Decade Later, Some Former D.C. Public Housing Residents Worry If They’ll Ever Return Tracy Braxton left D.C. for North Carolina in 2007. When she came back to visit, she stopped her car at North Capitol and K Street. She remembered the supermarket she used to run around as a little girl. […]
What options do Los Angeles’s homeless have? – Big Think
bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/old-hotels-are-being-converted-to-affordable-housing-and-its-changing-communities Mary Bolton 202-390-1208
Berlin set to hold referendum on banning big landlords and nationalising private rented housing | The Independent
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/berlin-landlords-ban-germany-private-rent-housing-referendum-vote-a8796471.html Mary Bolton 202-390-1208