It's data time! In case you needed yet another reminder that our fair city is vastly divided economically, Housing Complex assembled some pie charts for your viewing pleasure.
On the right, population per ward (numbers via Neighborhood Info DC, as of 2000, the latest year for which figures are available) is fairly equal.Below that, registered vacant [...]
When the District wants to offload real estate, there are lots of rules about how the city must prove that it indeed no longer needs the property, how the developers have to bid on the property, for how much the resulting units of affordable housing can be sold, how much of the work must be [...]
Things are looking up for middle Georgia Avenue, which recently got started on a Great Streets project that will upgrade plantings, lighting, sidewalk furniture, and signage between Otis and Webster Streets. DDOT's website also has a similar project in the works for lower Georgia Avenue, but implementation is at least another year away. In the [...]
This week, some prominent bloggers—Felix Salmon, Megan McArdle, Matt Yglesias, DCist's Sommer Mathis —are hammering at a curious urban quandary: why some storefronts remain vacant on bustling commercial strips.
Think U Street, in particular. Or 14th Street. Or whatever remains boarded up on H Street around the Atlas District, especially in a year or two since [...]
