By Adam Pagnucco. For many years, County Executive Marc Elrich has championed affordable housing, claiming that the private sector does not provide enough of it so the government must step…
Affordable Housing
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By Adam Pagnucco. As I have previously written, after Montgomery County’s rent control law took effect in 2024, multifamily residential permits collapsed. This was a nearly unique event in the…
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How to Stop Housing Construction
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By Adam Pagnucco. Blunt as ever, Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich recently told a meeting of the District 18 Breakfast Club that the county’s affordable housing program “kind of sucks.” According…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Council Member Kristin Mink is planning to introduce a tax on single family home demolitions to fund the county’s affordable housing program. Earlier this month, Mink indicated…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Two years ago, Montgomery County passed legislation establishing building energy performance standards. Last year, the county passed legislation establishing rent control. Now, those laws are working at…
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Landmarks of MoCo: Very Important Events
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By Adam Pagnucco. In Part One, I summarized how I asked my sources to help me construct a list of important events in county history since the 1960s. Part Two…
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How Are We Spending Housing Money? Part Five
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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…
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How Are We Spending Housing Money? Part Four
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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…
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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…
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How Are We Spending Housing Money? Part Two
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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…
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