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Wizards and Capitals teams staying in DC after all and the failure of the mansion tax referendum in Chicago have one thing in common: failure to take the time to build consensus

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Georgia introduced a new way to create transportation districts, then expected people to vote up or down in less than a year (" Failure of the transit-roads sales tax measure in Metro Atlanta ," 2012). Let alone vote on it. I wrote a bunch about failures of transit referenda in Tampa Bay and the State of Georgia in the 2010s.

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BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in the face of rising real estate values | Seattle, New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: THE TYPICAL TRAJECTORY for an urban arts community goes something like this: A couple of creative types set up shop in a neighborhood bypassed by development. Mycella Collective. The buildings might be run down, but rents are cheap, and more artists follow. Magic ensues for a few years.

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Shutdowns and continuing resolutions aren’t the answer of effective government

Partnership for Public Service

The Senate Appropriations Committee approved all 12 appropriations bills for the full Senate to consider, in line with the spending caps outlined in the bipartisan compromise on the debt limit developed earlier this year. The full House and Senate still need to consider and vote on these bills.

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Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2018, I wrote a piece about the attempt to extend the RFK campus lease, but at the behest of the "Washington" NFL team, which has been based in Suburban Prince George's County for a couple decades. -- " Yes, modify and extend the RFK Campus lease; No, don't do it for the Washington Redskins football team " The RFK campus is on the right.

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

While restrictive zoning is not the only reason housing costs are high in the United States, it does play a major role in limiting housing development, especially in parts of the country with high paying jobs in fast-growing industries. The first reform they looked at led to increased housing production targets for regions across the state.

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Montgomery County Maryland Planning Board resigns

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The council, which appoints the board, voted unanimously in a closed session Tuesday to ask the entire board to resign, according to two people familiar with the vote. The upheaval in the planning agency’s governance has shocked even longtime political observers in a county accustomed to intense development spats.

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Public housing administration as a measure of government (in)competence

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Council votes for $8 billion Medicaid contracts, housing overhaul ," Post ). Donald, who earns a salary of $275,000, “has no experience in property development, property management or managing federal housing programs,” the audit notes. The City Council is worked up about it (" D.C. Housing Authority better ," Post ). Bowser’s six D.C.

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