They've got their finances in order and found ways to get people to come back to DC to live. They're finally working on developing Anacostia, also too.
720,000 people don't live in the federal buildings. ;-)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-set-vote-dc-statehood-create-washington-douglass/story?id=71461781
HTH.
Cheers,
Scott.
720,000 people don't live in the federal buildings. ;-)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-set-vote-dc-statehood-create-washington-douglass/story?id=71461781
The boundaries of the proposed new state would encompass the district’s residential and business areas, but would exclude the federal monuments, the White House, the Capitol Building, the United States Supreme Court Building and the federal executive, legislative and judicial office buildings that are near the National Mall and the Capitol. Those excluded areas would then serve as the District of Columbia and would remain under federal oversight.
HTH.
Cheers,
Scott.