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Demonstrators Descend On Bowser's Office With Affordable Housing Demands
October 27, 2014
By Sarah Anne Hughes, DCist About two dozen demonstrators attempted to enter Councilmember Muriel Bowser's office in the Wilson Building today to ask for legislation in support of their affordable housing plan, but were...
Read More ShareAnd We Are Not Yet Moved: The Ferguson Decisions
October 27, 2014
By Ben Kabuye The air isn’t different in St. Louis, but you breathe differently in the show-me-state. It is the tension riding the air after a Black boy’s body breathed its last. Michael Brown’s...
Read More ShareMount Vernon Tenants & People's Platform Members Hold sit-in at Bowser’s D.C. Council Office
October 27, 2014
By Aaron C. Davis, Washington Post More than a dozen residents of a D.C. apartment building and advocates for the poor staged a sit-in Monday at the council offices of Muriel E. Bowser (D-Ward...
Read More ShareBREAKING: Long-time D.C. Residents Stage Sit-in inside Wilson Building
October 27, 2014
Today long-time D.C. residents are holding a demonstration inside the office of D.C. Councilmember Muriel Bowser demanding a clear plan to preserve and create affordable housing. The demonstration highlights a very important issue: the...
Read More SharePeople’s Platform Peace Vigil in Remembrance of Thousands of Residents Forced to Leave the District
October 16, 2014
On Thursday evening, members of the People’s Platform Alliance will hold a peace vigil to call attention to the increasing loss of affordable housing in the District. The vigil will take place before the Mayoral Forum...
Read More ShareKalmanovitz Initiative Intern Reflects on ONE DC Experience
September 30, 2014
By Diondra Hicks My experience as a Kalmanovitz Initiative Summer Organizing Fellow with ONE DC was utterly amazing. It afforded me the opportunity to do meaningful work with very interesting people. I do not...
Read More ShareShaw Residents and Community Organizers Strategize to Stay in Their Neighborhood
September 29, 2014
By Brenda Hayes, This Light: Sounds for Social Change In a town rife with Non-Profits that seemingly have all the answers for what ails longtime D.C. residents as they face gentrification-fueled displacement, ONE DC’s...
Read More SharePhyllissa Bilal of Barry Farm Study Circle Testifies Against Displacement
September 29, 2014
My name is Phyllissa Bilal and I am the cofounder of the Barry Farm Study Circle. Though I am the cofounder of BFSC I feel it necessary to present as a public housing resident...
Read More ShareAffordable Housing and Mount Vernon Plaza
August 07, 2014
"For Ebony, Brown, and Tesfamariam, the expiration of Bush’s tax-credit obligations has meant paying more rent, struggling to get by, and most likely trying to move in a year’s time, when the rent will...
Read More ShareMount Vernon Plaza Residents Take a Stand!
July 31, 2014
By Mount Vernon Plaza Tenant Association We are residents of Mount Vernon Plaza. Some of us have lived in Mount Vernon Plaza since the affordability program, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, began. When we...
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