{"id":651,"date":"2021-05-17T10:40:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T10:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/?p=651"},"modified":"2021-06-01T22:05:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T22:05:56","slug":"social-housing-enters-pages-of-comp-plan-decaa-zoom-may-17-7-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/dc\/651","title":{"rendered":"Social Housing Enters Pages of Comp Plan – DECAA Zoom \u2013 May 17, 7 pm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Media release<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

May 17, 2021<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Contact Nick DelleDonne<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

703-929-6656<\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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Social Housing Enters Pages of Comp Plan<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

DECAA Zoom \u2013 May 17, 7 pm<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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The District's affordable housing crisis has spurred renewed interest in social housing as an alternative to Mayor Bowser's\u00a0#Build,Build,Build\u00a0policy, which, it seems, will never provide housing for those who need it in DC \u2013 the very low-income residents.\u00a0 Alternatively, social housing has provided affordable housing in Europe for a hundred years, where the city builds the housing, the tenants manage it, and rent is limited to 30% of the tenant\u2019s income. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Late last week, in a last push before the final vote on the Comprehensive Plan, the tenant activist coalition, TENAC, and Dupont East<\/span> Civic Action Association (DECAA)\u00a0met with DC Councilmembers with an objective of getting <\/span>social housing mentioned in the Plan. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Meeting with Julia Koster, the staff-person shepherding the Comp Plan through the Council, TENAC and DECCA asked that social housing be included in the Plan, and, after some discussion, she agreed to add it in an appropriate place in the 1500-page bill to be considered with other models of housing.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In its series of meetings with Councilmembers, TENAC and DECAA found evidence of dissatisfaction with the Mayor\u2019s reliance on developers to produce the housing DC needs. At-large Councilmember\u00a0Robert White has assigned a staff-person to investigate social housing. Ward 4 Councilmember Janeese Lewis George drew attention last week proposing to set production goals at 40% of area median income, closer to the incomes of Black families who are being forced from the city for lack of family-sized affordable units. Council Chair Phil Mendelson has been emphatic that density does not yield affordability. Activists have noted that a minimum wage of $15 an hour, which failed in the Council, will produce an annual income of $30,000. Where can they live under the Mayor\u2019s Plan? Teachers, police and fire personnel live outside the District they serve because of the cost of housing. <\/span><\/p>\n

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DECAA will consider Comp Plan changes and the Wardman Park Hotel conversion to affordable housing at its meeting, Monday 7 pm by Zoom. Here is the link <\/span>https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/82392919871?pwd=UnFBQURJU0ZaaktxeFVhQWIwODdLdz09<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Join DECAA.\u00a0<\/span><\/em>www.KeepDupontGreen.org<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span>, <\/span><\/em>sign the petition<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

DECAA – Dedicated to community engagement and civic action<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Media release May 17, 2021 Contact Nick DelleDonne 703-929-6656 \u00a0 Social Housing Enters Pages of Comp Plan DECAA Zoom \u2013 May 17, 7 pm \u00a0 The District's affordable housing crisis has spurred renewed interest in social housing as an alternative to Mayor Bowser's\u00a0#Build,Build,Build\u00a0policy, which, it seems, will never provide housing for those who need it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,41,1,67,49,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-housing","category-citywide","category-comprehensive-plan","category-dc","category-planning","category-public-property","category-zoning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}