There is an intensity and breadth of issues facing Mayor Muriel E. Bowser as she settles into a rare third term leading the nation’s capital.
over Bowser’s proposed increase to the city’s tax abatement for office-to-residential conversions, questioning if downtown housing would bring enough affordable and family-size units.co-founded the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America that offers mortgage programs to help new homeowners, said the mayor should not lose sight of longtime residents in her efforts to bring in new ones.
“You can talk about attracting new populations, but it won’t happen with crime in the news every day. And it really won’t happen as you build more density and fewer places for families,” Hagler said. “What about the diverse tapestry of people that existed in D.C. before all this took off? Priced out of the market, no place, no voice.”reimagining downtown and growing the city more evenly.
. So how achievable is Bowser’s goal for the District’s population, especially after the city saw attrition in 2020 and 2021?“There are two different ways of looking at it, you can say whether the goal was met or not, and whether progress was made or not, and I think having stretch goals is clearly a contributor to the latter,” Williams said. “If I hadn’t set that goal of 100,000, would we have come close to or exceeded that goal? I don’t know.
“Progress has been made, clearly, in the performance of the government, Williams added. “But issues like the 911 call center and D.C. Housing Authority show it’s a continuing story, and continuing effort has to be made.”Bowser announced her pick to lead the city’s Office of Unified Communications , better known as the 911 call center.
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