View slides from CSG's presentation to the Montgomery County Young Democrats on May 20, 2025.

“Every new home helps, but the Council must also adopt the other tools in the package to meet our county’s great housing need. Most important is the approach reflected by [the ZTA] —making it much easier to build duplexes, triplexes, and small apartments near transit and jobs,” Carrie Kisicki, Montgomery advocacy manager for the Coalition for Smarter Growth, wrote in an email statement to Bethesda Today.

March 11, 2025Montgomery County Council100 Maryland AveRockville, MD 20850 More Housing N.O.W. PackageZTA 25-02, Workforce Housing - Development StandardsZTA 25-03, Expedited Approvals - Commercial to Residential ReconstructionSRA 25-01, Administrative Subdivision - Expedited Approval PlanExpedited Bill 2-25, Taxation - Payments in Lieu of Taxes - Affordable Housing Amendments Thank you for

Support the 2025 Housing for Jobs Act! Contact your State Delegates Contact your State Senator Maryland has a housing shortage that is making it harder for people to afford to live here and is holding back our economy per this state report. And even when people have managed to find

March 11, 2025 | Ginny Bixby | Bethesda Magazine Supporters who spoke at the hearing in general praised the legislative package’s aim to increase the county’s housing supply and create realistic homeownership opportunities for more county residents. “It’s a plain and simple fact that our county needs more housing,” said