Feb 14 2024
“Social Housing” Brought Up Twenty Times at Fifth Hearing on 17th & U Street Luxury Upzoning
Commission Chair Anthony Hood Says He's “Talking to Councilmember Janeese Lewis-George” to “Institute” Social Housing at Zoning
Wards 1 & 2, Washington, DC — Monday, February 12, at the fifth hearing regarding the question to rezone 1617 U Street (2-acres of public land and current home of the 3D MPD station and Engine 9 fire department), the concept of “social housing” was brought up twenty times by numerous residents testifying in opposition to the Office of Planning's high-density rezoning proposal.
Hearing Video → https://www.youtube.com/live/5zHF116VGPY?feature=shared&t=663
Social housing or, as it is called in DC, the Green New Deal for Housing, was recently profiled by DCist's Morgan Baskin who put out a report on January 17, 2024 entitled, “There’s A Growing Push To Develop Social Housing In D.C. What Is It?” https://dcist.com/story/24/01/17/dc-social-housing-green-new-deal/
The Zoning Commission has already been having conversations … with Councilmember Janeese Lewis-George about social housing … I have been talking to her about that [and] I know there's some things in the Council she's working with and she and I have spoken on [social housing] on a number of occasions and how we can institute [it at zoning].
Video clip → https://www.youtube.com/live/5zHF116VGPY?feature=shared&t=5149
The zoning hearings are set to continue on Monday February 26, 2024 at 4PM.
So far about twenty-five of the seventy-five residents in opposition to the high-density luxury rezoning have testified.
The public is invited to testify: www.SaveDCPublicLand.org/testify
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