Housing costs and the Latino community
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This week we’re updating our previous work examining how housing costings have influenced where the Latino community lives and has lived in Washington, D.C.
TODAY—The big picture. Over on our sister site, holaculturamas.wordpress.com, hear about how decades of rising rents and real estate prices have transformed neighborhoods—not only in the District but in many places around the country. Those changes have disproportionately disadvantaged Latinos and other minority groups, experts say.
TOMORROW—We have a new series of maps examining where 25- to 34-year-olds live in the District. Since D.C.’s popularity with the “millennial” generation is often blamed for driving up rents and real estate costs, we used U.S. Census data to take a closer look at where this key segment of that generation lived between 2009 and 2015.
WEDNESDAY—We’ll begin discussing D.C.’s rent control laws and why they have emerged as important supports to some low-income Latinos.
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