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DC business leaders praise the District’s innovative, family-friendly child care policies and offer recommendations for how the child care and business sectors can overcome persistent affordability challenges.
Housing counseling should help with more than just homebuying Counseling and coaching for homeownership can improve a family’s entire financial health, even if they never buy a home.Mental health on both sides of the blue line Acutely tragic, high-profile incidents only scratch the surface of the more complex relationship between policing and the mental health needs of both citizens and officers.How much is school readiness worth to local governments? Can the benefits of entering kindergarten with a strong foundation be quantified? What’s a reasonable amount to pay for preschool programs that successfully improve children’s outcomes?Can a new park help span the economic divide in our nation’s capital? For DC's new 11th Street Bridge Park to realize its potential as a public space and connect Anacostia to the rest of the city, planners must honestly answer, who is this for?How affordable housing gets built It's not uncommon for developers to rely on upward of 20 financing sources as they try to fill the gap between what it costs to build affordable housing and the money they have available.
