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Breakfast links: Arlington looks for new housing programs in 2025. Links By Eleanor Barker (Contributor) January 3, 2025. Arlington looks for new housing programs in 2025. After a judge ruled certain portions of Arlington’s Missing Middle program invalid, county staff are trying to address the housing crisis with new solutions.
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CaBi is a huge success. Will the program structure allow it to keep ...
Dec 2, 2024 · Capital BikeShare docking station outside Van Ness Metro Station. Image by Bossi used with permission. Capital Bikeshare is soaring to new ridership heights: the system has hit new monthly ridership records for six months and counting, and year over year, ridership jumped up a whopping 47.7% between October 2023 and October 2024. The growth is driven in part by local governments’ investment ...
Family Biking Matters: Biking in the cold – Greater Greater …
Dec 5, 2024 · Capitol Chill: the author's family bikes near the Capitol on a cold day. Welcome to Family (Biking) Matters, where guest columnists from the group Hill Family Biking answer all your questions about biking with family members.
DC’s public housing agency is making halting progress, but much …
Oct 10, 2024 · DC Housing Authority opened up a downtown office earlier this year. Image by DC Housing Authority.. In October 2022, a damning audit of DC’s Housing Authority identified 82 violations of federal policies. Two years later, the DCHA is making only halting progress.
Decode the interstates: What highway numbers actually mean
Sep 12, 2019 · Image by the author. Why is I-95 named I-95? What about I-395, or I-270, or I-66? There’s a logical system behind it all, and it’s easy to learn.
The Area Median Income (AMI), explained – Greater Greater …
Sep 1, 2016 · There are a number of programs used to create affordable housing in the region, including housing vouchers, inclusionary zoning, low-income housing tax credits and public housing. Each of these programs use a central statistic — the area median income, or AMI — to determine whether families are eligible for the program.
Tell the Montgomery County Council: Introduce attainable housing ...
Oct 2, 2024 · Photo by Dan Reed on Flickr.. Montgomery County is exploring ways to increase its housing stock and create more affordably-priced options in a place where the median home prices is over $630,000.This week, the county’s wrapping up a series of “listening sessions” about one proposal, Attainable Housing Strategies, which recommends allowing duplexes, townhomes, and small apartment ...
Breakfast links: Virginia lawmaker takes on hedge fund …
Dec 2, 2024 · Prince William County Board of Supervisors approves public-private partnership on “town center” development. The Prince William County Board of Supervisors gave the green light to move forward with establishing a public-private partnership to design and advance the development of a “town center” on a 60- to 70-acre plot of land along I-95 near Telegraph Road.
Metro’s Yellow Line bridge is closing for seven months. Here’s …
Jul 20, 2022 · A Yellow Line train to Huntington crosses over the Potomac. Image by the author.. Two large projects on Metro are scheduled to disrupt life for many on the Yellow and Blue lines, but the agency hopes its efforts to get the word out and provide alternatives is enough to keep the interruption to a minimum.