Since moving back to the D.C. area just over two years ago, I still catch myself feeling surprised by how fast this city is changing right now.
When my family and I first moved here in March of 1995, the District of Columbia's population had dropped down to 580,000, from a 1950 peak of 802,000. With a national image still marred by the crack epidemic that swept through the city in the 1980s, the suburbs were the only option my middle-class parents ever considered.
