ABSTRACT: Since late last year, The Office of Planning in the District of Columbia has partnered with the Brookings Institution to lay out the specifics around a neighborhood revitalization strategy: understanding where new and rehabilitated single and multi-family housing could be located, which neighborhoods are strong candidates for revitalization, which institutions might be able to serve as anchors for neighborhood development, and how the planning for schools and health facilities might reinforce neighborhood revitalization.

A draft document (to be completed in May) has been written in order to show citizens all that’s happening with neighborhood revitalization in the city, and all that could happen. It’s an effort to show the connection between the city’s revitalization effort and the the ongoing community feedback that the city is gathering from the mayor’s Neighborhood Action program. Linking priorities articulated at the neighborhood level with seven key revitalization strategies either underway or in planning.

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Howard Ways, AICP
DC Office of Planning
801 N. Capitol St., NE
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Washington, DC 20002
phone 202-442-7600 fax 202-442-7638
howard.ways@dc.gov