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Post columnist Colbert King says the DC Council needs to do more oversight

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

One of the comments on the article made a point about a local "Government Accountability Office" function. More of that, please." He makes the point that the Council probably needs more staff to be able to do so. The auditor, former Councilmember Kathy Patterson, has done a lot of good reporting.

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Defining deviance down: Disorder and cities in 2022

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Council to decriminalize fare evasion in 2018. Since that year, police records show, transit officers have dramatically shifted away from enforcing fare evasion across the rail and bus system, with citations and arrests numbering less than 300 last year, compared with more than 15,000 in 2017.

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Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority)

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But it is also a management failure of local government. Admittedly, oversight-wise, WMATA has a hard slog, as the State of Virginia, State of Maryland, and DC are "co-owners" now alongside the federal government. The director then, Mark R. They all have to agree on major decisions.

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How changes to Fair Market Rent affects access to affordable housing for extremely low-income renters

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Landlord participation in the voucher program has declined both nationally and in North Carolina from around 90% in 2018 to 80% in 2024. For instance, the 2024 FMR was calculated using ACS data from 2017 to 2021. FMR fluctuated between $650 and $700 a month, before jumping 32% in 2022.

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

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According to Twitter and other news sources (" WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative ," DC News Now) WMATA the operator of regional subway and bus services, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, are going to start working together. It's about speed versus access.

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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

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While the concept was spurred by my writings on the Purple Line light rail system coming to suburban Maryland, -- " (Big Hairy) Projects Action Plan(s) as an element of Comprehensive/Master Plans ," 2017 but also best practice programs I've across and not always written about.

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