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
Mayor Unveils Long-Awaited Cultural Plan | DCist
dcist.com/story/19/04/04/mayor-unveils-long-awaited-cultural-plan/ Mary Bolton 202-390-1208
‘Capital City’ on How Planning Follows Real Estate – CityLab
www.citylab.com/equity/2019/03/urban-planning-gentrification-capital-city-samuel-stein/585262/ Are Planners Partly to Blame for Gentrification? In his new book Capital City, Samuel Stein contends that real-estate interests have co-opted urban planning and made planners complicit in gentrification. Tanner Howard Tanner Howard is a freelance journalist and master’s student in urban policy and planning at the University of Illinois–Chicago. They write about housing […]