Roughly one-third of all construction workers who worked on the Department of Homeland Security’s new site in Ward 8 over the past year were D.C. residents, a new report shows. Just one-third, you say? Well apparently that’s pretty good, according to D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton.

The increases in D.C. residents employed have been steady as the project has progressed, according to a Norton news release.

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