maryland policy director @ggwash.org, your east silver spring civic association VP, pit bull parent, elder emo, just out here getting cuter. no growth has to mean less is less. they/them. https://linktr.ee/justupthepike
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the catharsis of a hot muggy DMV summer afternoon finally breaking into a heavy storm and when it finally clears, everything is golden and it was all worth it. summer here is always worth it bsky.app/profile/just...
6/6 @ggwash.org has endorsed for Montgomery County Council and Executive, and our candidates are committed to building more homes, for more budgets, in more places. they’ll come thru for us if we come thru for them, and early voting centers are open until Thursday 6/18. ggwash.org/view/103759/...
🧵: With Maryland early voting underway, we wanted to remind you why Andrew Friedson is worthy of your vote for Montgomery County Executive. He’s demonstrated again and again his unwavering commitment to making the county a more affordable, prosperous place. 1/8
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5/ due to pushback the Montgomery County Council chose to only allow duplexes and townhomes on major roads, but in my neighborhood we’ll just see lil old houses become big expensive ones. i look forward to seeing something different one day, and that’s why it’s important to vote—
3/ i’ll miss seeing the owner and her dog, and walking by these lil 1930s houses. i don’t blame her for selling or the flipper for buying, bc they’re all making logical choices in the market we have. change is already happening and we can only shape it—
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teardowns are common in East Silver Spring and other areas of Montgomery County where incomes are rising, found @montgomeryplans.bsky.social.
ppl may want to be here, but when all you can legally build are big houses, only the wealthy can afford to. montgomeryplanning.org/wp-content/u...
4/ in 2024 MoCo considered another path: allow 2 or 3 homes on a lot. this is common in DC now: an old house converted to 3 condos, each selling for about $600k. that’s accessible to a middle-class family, or cheap enough to subsidize for a low-income family—
the sky was so good this evening. it makes me think of watching TGIF as a kid, like this is the light in the backyard of the boy meets world house and mr. feeny is laying down some life advice
this is a house Drizzy and I pass most mornings. we knew the owner and her dog, who was always so excited to see us. she got on in years and just sold to a flipper for $480k. two doors down is a sign of things to come: a once-identical 1930s bungalow, rebuilt in 2017, listed now for $1.35m—
