A photo, taken from the center lane of the Baltimore Avenue-slash-Route 1 corridor looking directly south from the intersection of Oglethorpe Street and Baltimore Avenue, shows an urban vista. The green hills of Bladensburg are in the far distance, set against a cloudy evening sky and above a ribbon of roadway. Nearer to the photographer, an urban streetscape reveals row-houses and mid-rise commercial buildings south of Madison Street set against tree-lined sidewalks. Light traffic is seen on the roadway.
Affordability

Hyattsville housing study finds rising rents, cost-burdened households

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Underlying a Hyattsville housing market that is becoming more expensive are cost-burdened households, changing housing market conditions, and a lack of affordable housing options, according to a new analysis of the city’s housing affordability landscape. The analysis was conducted by Enterprise Community Partners, which was hired by the city of Hyattsville in 2019 to analyze housing conditions and craft policy proposals to address rising housing costs in the city. The first part of that job, an analysis of existing conditions, was unveiled at a virtual forum held June 9, 2020. The second part – policy recommendations – are still being developed. Demographic changes

The report highlighted significant shifts in the city’s socio-economic demographics within the past decade.

Hyattsville

Monday Map: Explore population, housing density in Prince George’s County

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See correction notice below article. Density is a hot topic in local politics. Consider the city of Hyattsville. Residents there are in the midst of a contentious and ongoing debate over the future of the long-abandoned Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission offices next to Magruder Park. Developer Werrlein Properties has proposed to build as much as 71 townhomes and 14 single-family homes on the site, which measures 0.01175 square miles.