By Adam Pagnucco. In the introduction, I explained the methodology my panel of historians and I used to compile a list of the most important events in MoCo history since…
Budget and Taxes
Here is An Analysis I Want to See
By Adam Pagnucco. In a recent post on the real estate industry, I wrote the following: One of the principal flaws of policy making in MoCo government is that individual…
How Rent Control Will Damage MoCo’s Tax Base
By Adam Pagnucco. With a strict rent control bill coming out of the council’s Planning, Housing and Parks Committee and worries about a structural budget deficit pervading county government, the…
By Adam Pagnucco. Now let’s get to the budget and taxes. Here is more from my panel with Council Members Andrew Friedson and Kate Stewart at the Greater Bethesda Chamber…
Friedson and Stewart Speak, Introduction
By Adam Pagnucco. On June 27, the Greater Bethesda Chamber of Commerce invited me to moderate a panel with Council Members Andrew Friedson and Kate Stewart at their annual real…
How Are We Spending Housing Money? Part Five
By Adam Pagnucco. In Part Four, we learned that a consistent, longitudinal time series on affordable housing produced and preserved by the county’s Housing Initiative Fund (HIF) appears to not…
How Are We Spending Housing Money? Part Four
By Adam Pagnucco. Let’s review what we have learned so far. Part One introduced the Housing Initiative Fund (HIF), which is the county government’s primary vehicle for funding the preservation…
By Adam Pagnucco. In Part Two, we learned that the county’s Housing Initiative Fund (HIF) has been receiving much more money under County Executive Marc Elrich than it did during…
How Are We Spending Housing Money? Part Two
By Adam Pagnucco. In Part One, we explained how the county’s Housing Initiative Fund (HIF) is intended to be used to preserve and construct affordable housing. Today, we will look…
How Are We Spending Housing Money? Part One
By Adam Pagnucco. Affordable housing. Everyone says they want it. No one believes there is enough of it. All politicians say they will build more of it. It looms larger…