The Greater Washington region faces several big, well-acknowledged challenges toward delivering inclusive prosperity for its residents. These include, among others, a growing affordable housing crisis, the precarious fiscal condition of its public transit system and stubborn racial and geographic inequities.
Because these issues affect the whole of the Washington region, we and our colleagues at Brookings Metro have always believed that our state and local officials must act in more coordinated and collaborative ways that respond to the complex, large-scale, interjurisdictional nature of these challenges. A prime example was the agreement in 2018 among D.C., Maryland, and Virginia officials to establish WMATA’s first dedicated capital funding source, an outcome that the Greater Washington Partnership, a relatively new-at-the-time business leadership alliance, helped forge. Leaders across state and county lines working together to invest in physical and human infrastructure that benefits…
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