“It’s a response to a lot of residents who ask these questions,” says DMPED spokesman Joaquin McPeek, particularly citing residents’ who want to know what is being done about the affordable housing crisis.

D.C.’s many laws govern what the public can and cannot do, but those very laws don’t exist in the public domain. One open government advocate changed that.

How open are D.C. government agencies? By and large, they could do better.