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‘We Have To Think Bigger About It’: Bowser Says D.C. Must Ramp Up Housing Construction | WAMU

January 08, 2019
  • D.C. Policy Center

On January 8, 2019, a WAMU article cited the D.C. Policy Center’s 2018 report on the District’s housing stock.

D.C. needs more housing — and fast.

That’s the message Mayor Muriel Bowser is sending as she starts her second term in office, saying that housing construction will have to ramp up significantly over the next six years for the city to help bring housing costs under control.

“Hands down the number one issue among D.C. residents is affordable housing. Hands down,” she said on Monday afternoon. “We are all called on to think big and differently about how we deliver more units in our city. That doesn’t mean that we can do everything the way we’ve always done it. We have to think bigger about it.”

Read more: ‘We Have To Think Bigger About It’: Bowser Says D.C. Must Ramp Up Housing Construction | WAMU

Related: Taking Stock of the District’s Housing Stock: Capacity, Affordability, and Pressures on Family Housing | D.C. Policy Center

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