Updates
BREAKING: 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...
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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...
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,...
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