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 […]

Fearing Privatization: Public Housing Activists Push Back Against RAD

shelterforce.org/2019/03/21/fearing-privatization-public-housing-activists-push-back-against-rad-plans/ Fearing Privatization: Public Housing Activists Push Back Against RAD March 21, 2019 Minneapolis public housing residents show their displeasure in the housing authority’s plan to convert the Elliot Twins towers using HUD’s RAD program. Photo courtesy of Ladan Yusuf This article was updated and revised for clarity, including corrections, on March 28, 2019. In […]

Sky-High Rents Are Crushing Working Americans. Who’s Going To Fix It?

www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mikekoprowski/sky-high-rents-2020-issue?utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=bffbbuzzfeednews&ref=bffbbuzzfeednews Opinion: The Crushing Cost Of Rent Should Be 2020’s Big Issue Since 1960, renters’ incomes have increased by only 5% while rents have risen 61%. Whoever wants to be president should say how they’ll solve this crisis. Mike Koprowski Posted on March 28, 2019, at 10:59 a.m. ET It’s hard to remember the last […]

RWJF’s Annual County Health Rankings look at housing costs

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RWJF’s Annual County Health Rankings look at housing costs

ow.ly/5Lp430ofwrX Mary Bolton 202-390-1208

Sky-High Rents Are Crushing Working Americans. Who’s Going To Fix It?

www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mikekoprowski/sky-high-rents-2020-issue?utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=bfsharefacebook&ref=mobile_share Opinion: The Crushing Cost Of Rent Should Be 2020’s Big Issue Since 1960, renters’ incomes have increased by only 5% while rents have risen 61%. Whoever wants to be president should say how they’ll solve this crisis. Mike Koprowski Kerem Yucel / AFP / Getty Images Cyclists pass a tent city near a housing […]

Amazon Will Boost Condo Construction and One-Bedrooms Remain King: The New Condo Market in 2019

dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/amazon-will-boost-condo-construction-and-one-bedrooms-remain-king/15114 Amazon Will Boost Condo Construction and One-Bedrooms Remain King: The New Condo Market in 2019 by Nena Perry-Brown New unit at Chapman Stables. Three months into 2019, several questions surround the DC area real estate market. Has the federal government shutdown had a lingering impact on the market? How will the expected arrival of […]

REP LIEU, SEN FEINSTEIN, SEN MURKOWSKI AND REP STIVERS INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN BILL TO COMBAT HOMELESSNESS | Congressman Ted Lieu

lieu.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-lieu-sen-feinstein-sen-murkowski-and-rep-stivers-introduce REP LIEU, SEN FEINSTEIN, SEN MURKOWSKI AND REP STIVERS INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN BILL TO COMBAT HOMELESSNESS WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Ted Lieu (D-Los Angeles County), Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Congressman Steve Stivers (R-OH) today introduced the “Fighting Homelessness Through Services and Housing Act”, a bill to increase federal resources to […]

Sky-High Rents Are Crushing Working Americans. Who’s Going To Fix It?

www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mikekoprowski/sky-high-rents-2020-issue?utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=bfsharefacebook&ref=mobile_share Opinion: The Crushing Cost Of Rent Should Be 2020’s Big Issue Since 1960, renters’ incomes have increased by only 5% while rents have risen 61%. Whoever wants to be president should say how they’ll solve this crisis. Mike Koprowski Kerem Yucel / AFP / Getty Images Cyclist pass a tent city near a housing […]