Pages tagged with affordable housing

Infrastructure deficit, U.S.-China climate challenges, regional economic growth, and more!
Monday, May 14th, 2012

It’s been awhile since we’ve done a round-up of posts here at The Yardstick and since we’ve covered so many topics over the past couple of months, we thought we’d sum them up in case you haven’t had a chance to see them all: Metro Washington and the U.S. as a whole are suffering from a

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Regional cooperation, economic diversity, public transit, & small business key to the DC area’s future economy
Friday, March 16th, 2012

This video features "highlights" from the presentation given by Dr. Stephen Fuller on the current state and future of the metro Washington economy. Fuller explains that the region must take a cooperative approach to planning for slower growth and promoting economic diversification, in light of li

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Study to assess availability of affordable housing around existing and planned transit stations in region
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

A study recently initiated in Prince George's County, the District of Columbia, and the City of Alexandria will assess the availability of affordable housing options near ten existing or planned transit stations where future development could cause home prices and rents to escalate. Funded throug

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Region Seeks Federal TIGER Funding for Access Improvements at 16 Rail Stations
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

On March 19, the Transportation Planning Board will apply for $20 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation to make a number of high-impact bicycle and pedestrian access improvements around 16 Metrorail and commuter rail stations in the Washington region. The proposed project

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Tysons Corner & Surrey, BC: Transforming “Edge Cities” into Urban Centers
Friday, February 17th, 2012

An article from Atlantic Cities on the rapid development of Surrey, a former edge city near Vancouver, recently caught our eye, particularly in relation to the effort underway to transform Tysons Corner from a sprawling automobile-centric place to an urban center with transit, housing, and walkabili

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Implementing Region Forward: Q & A with RF Leaders
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

We asked two leaders who are guiding the implementation of Region Forward to comment on the progress that’s already been made, what they’re looking forward to accomplishing in the coming year, and how RF impacts their own communities. Eric Olson is the Chairman of the Region Forward Coalition

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Ending homelessness involves providing more affordable housing
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

Housing is an essential element of Region Forward. And it pops up in some way in almost every blog post here at The Yardstick, usually in the context of the region’s need for much more affordable housing. Housing in metro Washington can be an extremely frustrating subject, given the region’s

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A New Narrative about the Region’s Future
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

There’s been a lot of talk lately about the region’s economic future. And it’s for a good reason. Over the past few years the prevailing narrative has been that metro Washington shines as one of the rare bright spots in a dismal national economy thanks to the protective bubble provided by the

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From climate adaptation to housing shortages, lots of work to do!
Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Region Forward followers: We hope your 2012 is off to a great start! We’ll be back to regular blogging very soon, but in the meantime, here are some of the most-read posts from the second half of 2011 that you may have missed or want to revisit: (For the most-read posts from the first half of 2

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Regional prosperity depends upon reducing inequality
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

Alicia Lewis and Sophie Mintier, Housing Planners at MWCOG, recently attended PolicyLink’s Equity Summit 2011 in Detroit. The “Dispatches from Detroit” series provides RF followers a recap of what they learned as well as specific proposals to move our Region Forward. This is Sophie’s second

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