The Goodspeed Update

It occurred to me in a class session about U.S. Census data this week that it would be possible to research the number of group houses in D.C. and other places around the country. The census ask the number of members of the households and whether they constitute a family on the short form, meaning […]

Thanks to a consistent high demand for rental housing and a large stock of spacious row houses, Washington, D.C., has a large number of group houses. Well known by locals, I’ll define the group house as a house or apartment with a revolving group of four or more unrelated roommates who share a common kitchen, […]

For the last 16 years a group of trails and cycling advocates have worked largely in obscurity to create a vision for an “urban Appalachain Trail”: a 3,000 mile off-road trail from Key West, Florida to Calais, Maine for bikers and hikers. Headquartered in the Rhode Island-based East Coast Greenway Alliance, the trail’s backers work […]