Updates
Affordable 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...
Read More ShareAffordable Housing Preserved at Bass Place
July 31, 2014
Linda Leaks, a ONE DC member and long time DC organizer, is supporting the Bass Place tenants in an effort to purchase their building and convert it into a limited equity cooperative. University Legal...
Read More ShareElla Baker's Legacy Continues to Influence Community Leaders
July 29, 2014
By Nadia Johnson Being a young president of a tenant association one faces many challenges, such as the people you are fighting for don’t see a reason worth fighting anymore. I was starting to...
Read More ShareONE DC Members Attend Ella Baker Institute in Chicago
July 29, 2014
By Nkechi Feaster I became an advocate, not because of my idealistic heart and character; but because I saw how the low income community was highly discriminated against in DC. Stereotyped, held back, dismissed,...
Read More ShareSave Museum Square!
July 14, 2014
Check out the blog of a movement trying to save Museum Square, a building whose demolition would displace low-income Chinese residents in China town. http://savemuseumsquare.com/ From the blog: "In early June of this year,...
Read More ShareJessica Gordon Nembhard's Collective Courage Receives Enthusiastic Reception in DC & Baltimore
June 30, 2014
By John Duda, The Democracy CollaborativeJessica Gordon Nembhard, a member of ONE-DC’s shared leadership team, offered two area talks to mark the release of her long-awaited book Collective Courage: African-American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice. Dr. Nembhard,...
Read More ShareKelsey Garden Tenants Prepare to Return
June 30, 2014
By Ka Flewellen The first Kelsey Garden tenants are excited and planning to move back to their Shaw neighborhood in the fall of 2014. It has been eight years of struggle and adjustment for...
Read More ShareWhat Would It Take to End Displacement?
June 30, 2014
By Rob Wohl For the past three months, ONE DC has been organizing a series of community learning forums called “From the Streets to the Rooftops” to bring together long-time residents as well as...
Read More ShareONE DC Partners with GW's Center for Civic Engagement for Equitable Development Symposium
June 30, 2014
By Bianca Valencia, The George Washington University From the start of the planning committee, GW’s Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service (CCEPS) was excited to have the opportunity to partner with a strong,...
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