The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
AUGUST 2, 2023
State and local policymakers around the country are working to address America’s severe housing shortage, by considering, and implementing, a wide range of policies in the hopes of increasing housing supply. These policies range from substantive revisions to zoning codes to procedural reforms to the land use approval process.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 20, 2024
From the article: The Sustainable DC Plan, which came out in 2013, said the District should begin diverting 80% of its waste away from landfills and incinerators by 2032. Detached housing neighborhoods tend to generate a lot more yard waste than rowhouse neighborhoods. But yard waste is a huge component of the waste stream.
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Partnership for Public Service
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
Before the August recess, members of the House and the Senate passed 10 of the 12 required bills out of their respective appropriations committees. The full House and Senate still need to consider and vote on these bills. However, the bills they drafted are vastly different. 30 to keep the government funded and fully open for business.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
The group organized in 2013 to try to prevent the kind of displacement that has traditionally followed many Metro stations and new transit lines across the country. Also see " Op-Ed in Washington Post about preserving affordable housing in the Purple Line corridor (Department of Duh) " from earlier in the year on the same topic.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 26, 2023
The article mentions Councilmember Robert White question Brenda Donald, director of the DC Housing Authority, asking about her $40,000+ bonus for the year, after the agency was ripped to shreds by a HUD inspection report (" D.C. Housing Authority’s leadership is failing, HUD report says ").
GovLoop
JULY 27, 2023
That work has continued unabated since Daniels left office in 2013, and the rating now sits at 98%, according to the 2021 annual report. In 2018, the bureau made a big training push, updating curricula and ensuring that all employees received training in their first two weeks on the job, according to the BMV’s 2018 annual report.
The Lowe Down
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Freedom House” gathers data on democracy across the world, broken down into different indicators including rule of law, electoral process, political rights, and civil liberties. Drawing on these data in the period between 2013 and 2018, it appears that there is not a strong correlation between income inequality and democratic backsliding.
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