Region Forward Blog Economic development requires a safe community. A safe community requires dedicated emergency personnel. April 15, 2011 Responding to reports of burglary. Providing emergency medical care. Fighting fires. Metropolitan Washington’s police fire and rescue personnel run into danger...
News Release Region's Homeless Population Increased by 2 percent in 2011 April 13, 2011 This year’s enumeration of the metropolitan Washington region’s homeless population counted 11,988 people, a 2 percent increase from the previous year. The...
Region Forward Blog The Morning Measure: Mayor Gray sees TOD as the future April 13, 2011 D.C. Mayor Vince Gray sounds like he’s been reading a few of our latest posts . Fresh from his time in the slammer for protesting Congress’ meddling in...
Region Forward Blog The Morning Measure: Debating D.C.’s height limits…again April 7, 2011 It seems like this topic used to get less frequent play but the merits and drawbacks of building height limits specifically in D.C. are being discussed yet...
Region Forward Blog The Morning Measure: Balancing (re)development and equity in high-demand locations April 6, 2011 Yesterday we commented on the positive impact that the CenterCityDC development could have by bringing jobs housing and more vibrancy to one of the region’s...