SILVER SPRING, MD – A local analyst of urban
planning issues who co-authored a report assessing housing options and services
available to the elderly, disabled and homeless in the region, will address the
Montgomery County Planning Board Thursday as part of the board’s focus on
housing this spring.
Margery Austin Turner, director
of the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban
Institute, will speak about “Housing in the Nation’s Capital,” the latest
presentation to help guide the board’s review of housing policy. Turner is one
of a number of experts to speak about housing and its connection to a variety of
planning issues as the board considers updates to the housing section of
the General Plan, the board’s first since 1993.
Turner
regularly contributes to an annual report about housing in the Washington metropolitan
region that assembles and analyzes housing conditions and trends in the
District of Columbia and the surrounding counties. The 2007 report took a
regional perspective, examining how the District, Montgomery County and other
areas address housing for special needs populations.
Learn more about the speaker series at www.mcparkandplanning.org/development/agp/speaker_series.shtm.
WHO:
Margery
Austin Turner, director of the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy
Center at the Urban Institute
WHAT:
“Housing in the Nation’s Capital” presentation to
the Montgomery County Planning Board
WHEN:
7:30 p.m., Thursday, May 8
WHERE:
Park and Planning Headquarters
8787 Georgia Ave.
Silver Spring, MD