In today’s rundown: How much women spend on basic medical care during their lives. How much affordable housing is available in D.C.? Police look into whether two attacks on transgender people in D.C. were hate crimes.
— Since the Institute of Medicine named eight preventative services that women should get for free under the new federal health care law, www.good.is created an infographic that tracks how much money the average woman spends on basic health care in her life time. Click here to check out the chart.
— How much affordable housing is available in the District? asks Washington City Paper‘s Housing Complex. After reviewing a Brookings Institute report updating the city’s progress in affordable housing, the answer is: it’s not clear how much affordable housing is available.
— “D.C. police are investigating whether two recent attacks on transgender people within a block of each other in Northeast Washington were motivated by hate,” reports The Washington Post. The first attack was fatal.
