“The change in our city has been very fast,” Bowser said at a housing event in Shaw’s Howard Theatre on Saturday. “It was a wake-up call to me of how really physically different things had been in my lifetime.”Bowser’s story underscored the rapid changes in a city she said has displaced longtime, black residents. And many more the federal government made — and for much longer.”ADIn October, Bowser announced an ambitious plan to build 12,000 affordable housing units by 2025, with specific neighborhood targets to spread subsidized housing more evenly across the city. The event was consistent with her administration’s political messaging that affordable housing is a social justice effort and residents from all backgrounds need to be supportive. They said residents need to advocate for these policies to generate council and mayoral support.

Source: Washington Post February 08, 2020 23:53 UTC