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| Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) | |
| We promote thoughtful development around Metro stations to create lively, safe, diverse, pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods. Our community and decision-maker outreach efforts focus on helping stakeholders envision the potential benefits of change around specific eastside Metro stations, where neighborhoods suffering from years of disinvestment have much to gain from Metro-oriented revitalization. We work with residents and decision-makers to create small area plans, building designs, housing strategies and transportation investments that foster safe walking and bicycling routes, and better access to Metrorail. Recommended improvements to the pedestrian environment are now being pursued for our target stations: Fort Totten, Rhode Island Avenue, Minnesota Avenue, and Capitol Heights Metro Stations. These site specific efforts bolster our broader policy reform agenda with local governments and the Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority (WMATA). | |
| A Working Vision for Downtown Ward 7 Creating a safer, more walkable Minnesota Avenue and Benning Road downtown district and Minnesota Avenue Metro station. View the full report here. | |
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| Making the Most of Metro: Community Building through Transit (PDF) | |
| Affordable Housing | |
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WRN works both at the regional and local level to ensure that convenient, walkable communities are economically diverse. Our distinctive contribution to D.C.'s Affordable Housing Alliance is land use and transportation policy expertise, and a regional perspective. Collectively, affordable housing advocates are gaining ground - securing full funding for the housing trust fund, making progress on Inclusionary Zoning, and advancing a comprehensive housing strategy for the city. WRN continues to support affordable housing efforts in Northern Virginia including organizing candidate forums, developing policy agendas, guiding housing trust fund campaigns, and tracking emerging housing policy. In Alexandria, we work with Housing Action and Tenants and Workers United, while in Fairfax and the rest of the region, we work with the Northern Virginia Affordable Housing Alliance. Our report on the region's Housing Trust Funds, shows that only a few of the region’s governments are providing significant and stable local funding for affordable housing. Dedicating local funds to a Affordable Housing Trust Fund is a basic policy tool that could be adopted by each jurisdiction as housing values rise, affordability decreases, and property tax revenues climb. In April 2004, our
publication Affordable Housing
Progress Report helped inform activists and decision-makers
about the need for a fair share of affordable housing across the region
and the potential to adopt housing policies commensurate to the problem. |
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