Public land deals give hot neighborhoods affordable housing (Greater Greater Washington): “While demand to live in DC rises, its stock of low-priced homes is shrinking. Projects on city-owned land have created many mixed-income housing opportunities throughout the city [...] but the future direction for public land redevelopment is unclear [...] While the District has completed many successful projects, many more opportunities remain to realize public benefits from public land.” Cheryl Cort, Policy Director for (Catalogue nonprofit) the Coalition for Smarter Growth, discusses the Coalition’s new paper on DC’s use of “public land to provide affordable housing and other community benefits.”
Nonprofit’s turnaround has brought it lots of attention (Washington Post: Business): “When David Snider inherited Young Playwrights’ Theater seven years ago, he knew he had to shake up an arts education organization that at the time was struggling [...] By the end of his first year as executive director, Young Playwrights’ had turned its deficit into a $34,000 surplus and it has been operating in the black ever since.” YPT also became a Catalogue nonprofit the following year and was re-featured in 2009/2010. Learn more about their awesome residency and workshop programs right here.
MSI parents join Maravell in fight for site (American Farmer): “More than 80 Montgomery County citizens joined in a rally on May 30 at the Rockville District Courthouse to save Nick Maravell’s farm. Unless Maravell’s pending legal actions succeed, the 32-year-old farm will be turned into parking lots and Montgomery Soccer Inc. soccer fields.” Sophia Maravell, educational director and second-generation farmer at Brickyard Educational Farm, said that “we want to use this special piece of land as a Montgomery County farm-to-school hub for local children.” Caroline Taylor, director of (Catalogue nonprofit) Montgomery Countryside Alliance, added that “… when it comes to precious land like this, officials need to hold true to those values and support the farm.”