housing

Metro releases paper on updating affordable housing policy in response to area’s housing crisis

Metro’s Joint Development team is in the process of updating the agency’s affordable housing policy. The program allows Metro to collaborate with qualified developers to build transit-oriented developments on Metro-owned properties — usually parcels left over from construction of transit projects.  As part of the policy update, the J.D. team has released [continue reading]

Metro News Now! Friday, August 2

Between some vacation time and other duties, it has been a while since I’ve rode herd on transportation-related news. So let’s see if the saddle still fits… •Long interview with Metro CEO Phil Washington at the Planning Report, but some pretty good nuggets in there on Metro’s challenges when it [continue reading]