pete rodrigue

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volunteer GGWash contributor in DC. https://ggwash.org/contributors/prodrigue

map showing places Kenyan McDuffie did better. It's very similar to the places in DC that have R-1 zoning, which bans duplexes and apartment buildings.
a map showing DC's R-1A and R-1B zoning areas. There's a ton of overlap with the areas that Kenyan McDuffie did better in, at least in the initial results the morning after the election.
A collection of WaPo headlines from the 1920s and 30s in which rich, white homeowners pushed to get apartments banned from their neighborhoods.
venn diagrams showing that the former FHA "whites only" areas still get R-1A and, overwhelmingly, R-1B zoning, which bans apartment buildings.
the "same picture" meme from the office, with ye old racist zoning on the left and DC's current zoning on the right
A map showing the racist FHA loan grades from the 1930s and, in light green stripes, the areas that are now zoned to disallow apartment buildings and duplexes. The "green" areas with high grades were super white and got higher grades. The red and orange areas were lower-income and/or had more Black residents. Those areas got lower grades. The same areas that were once "whites only" still don't allow apartments. The overlap is striking.
A map showing an ~8 square mile box overlaid on DC, representing (most of) DC's many parking spaces.
A map showing 800 meter circles around each WMATA metro station. The circles are colored according to the number of registered vehicles near that station. Downtown stations have fewer registered vehicles nearby. Capitol Hill-area stations and stations near the 16th st corridor have more.
A scatter plot showing a positive correlation between tract level median household income and the number of vehicles per household.
A chart showing the distribution of the number of registered vehicles per household. A small number of households own a disproportionate share of total registered vehicles. For example, 1.4% of households own 4 or more vehicles, and those households account for almost 6% of all vehicles registered in DC.
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A sign in the miniature town next to the Tortola, BVI cruise ship stop that says "pedestrian only."
A sketch of a currently-vacant building in Lanier Heights. The sketch shows a renovated building in its place that has a cafe on the ground floor.