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Local leaders want affordable homes near transit. Zoning, NIMBYs, and land costs stand in the way.

As the United Nations Climate Action Summit opens in New York later this month, a coalition of activists plans to bring D.C.’s streets to a standstill by blocking key intersections around the city.

Business is booming in the Washington region. And the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments says the D.C. area needs 320,000 housing units by 2030 to keep up — 75,000 more than originally forecast.

Happy Thursday. Columnist jonetta rose barras reported this morning that the law firm hired by the DC Council to investigate Ward 2 member Jack Evans may be having trouble completing its report on time.

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A West Coast hospitality company that leases, designs, furnishes and maintains blocks of apartments largely in urban settings, and books them like hotel rooms for varying lengths, appears to be landing in D.C.’s Truxton Circle neighborhood…

Misclassification of employees as independent contractors is a tale as old as payroll taxes, and the construction industry is no exception. Labor costs are a major facet of the recent ballooning of construction costs nationwide, and now,…

Ed Hanlon is at it again. Dupont’s litigious advisory neighborhood commissioner, deck hater, and reformed Hummer driver has filed a complaint with the Office of Campaign Finance, alleging that his own ANC’s Twitter account has violated a…

“This is no toy. This is peoples’ lives. Do you know how hard it is to get your life back together when they have you locked up for something frivolous?”

A D.C. resident said she repeatedly tried to get a fine overturned after her brother parked her van at the mall where he went shopping and got a ticket.

New data released for the first time by the Metropolitan Police Department allows a deeper look into racial disparities in how DC police enforce stop and frisks.

After allegations surfaced that a student was sexually abused at Capitol Hill Montessori School @ Logan, D.C. Public Schools cut ties with an after-school care provider that operates in seven states. Officials told families that student…

One of Georgetown’s best-loved tourist attractions — a mule-drawn canal boat traversing the C&O Canal — is one large step closer to returning after the restoration of Locks 3 and 4 in the heart of the city.

When most people think of Washington, D.C., they think of the White House, the Capitol and the Washington Monument. Like 700,000 other people, I think of it as home—a place full of culture, and a place where people raise their families.…

Washington-area elected officials voted Wednesday to push their local governments to address the region’s affordable-housing shortage by setting individual targets to increase production of low- and medium-cost housing by 2030.

The Washington Post's free commuter weekly will shut down Thursday.

That’s roughly 30 percent more than currently projected

This spring, UrbanTurf reported on a development which could transform a block of Georgia Avenue just south of Missouri Avenue. Now, more details are emerging on what could be in the works — if one specific development team is awarded…

Local governments around Greater Washington now plan to set targets for housing production over the next decade, as part of a regional initiative to build 320,000 new homes by 2030 and ease the region’s cost pressures.

A series of new office buildings across D.C. have signed anchor tenants to fill their highest floors, but have struggled to lease those closer to the ground, further increasing the city's already-high vacancy rate.