2024 Office of Planning & Office of Zoning Performance Oversight Highlights

OP/OZ Performance Oversight Highlights

Feb 22 2024

Some things to ask yourself about participating in these types of hearings:
  • Did OP/OZ's agency responses get at your problems and concerns, how? If not, why do you believe they didn't? And what's your follow up with these agencies or with the Committee to pursue the answers?

  • Do you think we moved the needle in any way at these hearings for the people and for our interests in the city? How or why?  

For me, the agencies and the city have no answers for (see attached print testimonials below for links to sources):

  • 60,000 Black residents displaced in twenty years of #BuildingAsUsual
  • Conservatively, there are 40,000 empty Class A housing units around the city right now — there is no luxury housing crisis (as if there ever was).  We need affordable housing, social housing not luxury housing especially on public land.
  • DC's definition of affordable housing IS NOT affordable for most people especially due to the immense racial wealth gap in DC.

Testimonials (some highlights):


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