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At Feb. 1 virtual meeting, MPD 2D commander and DC behavioral health agency officials to speak on “uptick of complaints” in apartment buildings

January 31, 2022 by FHC Leave a Comment

Officers from Metropolitan Police Department’s Second District and representatives of DC’s behavioral health agency will appear on a virtual panel this Tuesday. 2D CAC Chair Sarah Bever wrote in the meeting announcement (below): During the last few years 2D has experienced an uptick of complaints about behavioral health issues in public spaces and apartment buildings…. […]

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, Around the Neighborhood, News

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Upcoming events: Housing history in Cleveland Park, future development in Chevy Chase, and adding housing to your own property

January 20, 2022 by FHC Leave a Comment

Thursday, January 20th at 7:30 p.m.: The first in a series of virtual conversations hosted by Cleveland Park Smart Growth on the neighborhood’s housing affordability challenges and potential solutions. It focuses on Cleveland Park’s history of exclusion and how current civic engagement practices can perpetuate exclusion in high-income neighborhoods. See the schedule for the other […]

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, Nearby News, News, Things To Do

Take a walk with DC planners on Dec. 8 or 11 to provide feedback on the Chevy Chase “small area plan”

November 30, 2021 by FHC 1 Comment

by Marlene Berlin The commercial area of Chevy Chase, DC was built for convenient shopping a short walk away from the neighborhood’s many single family homes, and the multi-family buildings down Connecticut Avenue. And this worked for many decades. Demographic and retail changes over the decades have chipped away at that customer base – and […]

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, Chevy Chase, News

Chevy Chase DC shaping its future with Small Area Plan; Watch webinars on Ward 3 affordable housing tools and history of city planning

April 26, 2021 by FHC 1 Comment

by Marlene Berlin From 2014 to 2016, the DC Office of Planning worked with residents, UDC, and community and business leaders in Van Ness to come up with a framework for development, commerce and sustainability. Chevy Chase is going through a similar process now. Community members are being asked to engage in shaping priorities for […]

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, Chevy Chase, Featured, Nearby News, News, Real Estate

Help us count the backyard and basement apartments in Ward 3

March 30, 2021 by FHC Leave a Comment

To spare you the long introduction: We are doing a survey! Do you have an ADU? In the process of adding one? We’re trying to get a count of how many ADUs exist or will soon in Ward 3. You’ll find the survey here and below. Accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, seem to be having […]

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, Featured, Home Front, News, Real Estate

Affordable housing in Ward 3: How do we get there from here? Our q&a with ANC 3F commissioner David Cristeal

October 11, 2020 by FHC 6 Comments

Get ready to hear more about housing affordability in Ward 3 in the coming years. That’s in part because of Mayor Muriel Bowser’s 2019 Housing Initiative, which set a goal of building 12,000 units of affordable housing in the District by 2025, and nearly 2,000 of them in the “Rock Creek West” planning area, which […]

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, ANC 3F, Home Front, News

Upcoming panels: Housing homeless families and the “invisible walls” around Ward 3

September 22, 2020 by FHC Leave a Comment

We want to bring your attention to a couple of upcoming panels on housing availability and affordability. At noon on Thursday, October 8th, Friendship Place is partnering with NYU to present a virtual panel on housing solutions for families facing with homelessness. With public radio host Ray Suarez moderating: Panelists will discuss the journey a […]

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, News

Wanted: A housing policy that centers racial equity (Opinion)

July 20, 2020 by FHC 19 Comments

by Kesh Ladduwahetty Ward 3 has come under particular scrutiny recently for its egregious lack of affordable housing, as well it should. But the Mayor’s proposal to address the issue, which the DC Council has very slightly modified, has carefully avoided the 800-pound gorilla: racism. In failing to define the actual problem, they have failed […]

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, Featured, News, Opinion, Zoning

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