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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Today, the city hosts more narrow, multi-story townhouses, which provide homeownership opportunities in tight spaces, according to the paper “ Here Come the Tall, Skinny Townhouses: Assessing Single-Family to Townhouse Redevelopment, 2007-2020 ,” by Jake Wegmann, Aabiya Noman Baqai, and Josh Conrad of the University of Texas at Austin.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

," " Park View Residents Continue To Oppose Redevelopment at Bruce Monroe Park " Washington City Paper , also see " "Temporary" uses as a way to foil development: Bruce Monroe Elementary School site, DC | from school to park to housing "). And that super shifted my interest towards transit and economic development , c. It's expensive to build.