The budget rundowns continue! This time with housing stuff and economic development stuff.
Councilmember Michael Brown's Housing and Workforce Development committee was the target of lobbying from affordable housing advocates over the yanking of $18 million from the Housing Production Trust Fund, and other issues. The report, which passed unanimously today, does the following things:

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Yesterday, the District Department of Transportation announced 10 grant recipients receiving funds for "non-traditional projects that are linked to the District’s transportation system," with grants ranging from $50,000 to $579,500.
Back in June, the Department first started soliciting applications for the program, which had some $2 million available. Entries were due in early August.

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