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On Wednesday the Capital Trails Coalition released a report coming to a shocking conclusion: trails are good, actually.
Prepared by ESI Solutions and published by the coalition of organizations such as the Washington Area Bicyclists Association and the Rails to Trails Conservancy, the report outlines and quantifies the economic, health, and environmental benefits of completing the network.
According to the report, not only is the region growing and widely supportive of trails, but the COVID-19 pandemic has also sent demand skyrocketing and 53% of those surveyed by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments said they expect to walk more post-pandemic.
A map of the Capitl Trails Network from the Captial Trails Coalition report.
The number of people experiencing homelessness in D.C. is seeing significant decline, and officials say this indicates that programs to help people are working.
The result of the “point in time” count of people who are homeless was released Thursday. The count is conducted every year by every jurisdiction in the U.S. on the same night in January.
“Overall, homelessness in the city is down 20% from last year and family homelessness is down 50% from last year,” D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said. “And, for the first time, we saw a small decrease in individual homelessness as well.”
That 20% overall average of categories includes a small increase in chronic homelessness that the city defines as someone having a disabling condition, repeated episodes or being homeless continuously for a year or more.