Updates
Geoff Griffis Attempts to Usurp TOPA at Congress Heights
January 12, 2018
Two days after Christmas, on December 27, 2017, real estate developer and slumlord Geoff Griffis cut a back door deal with long-time partner and fellow slumlord Sanford Capital in an attempt to acquire their...
Read More ShareHUD Budget Cuts May Have Major Repercussions on Public Housing in DC
December 31, 2017
By Kelly Iradukunda, People's Platform & Admin Organizing Apprentice In the midst of an affordable housing crisis here in the nation's capital, the Trump administration adds its own recipe to the disaster by cutting HUD's...
Read More ShareWard 5 ANCs Issue Resolution Against Mid-City Displacement Plan
December 05, 2017
ANC 5B has passed a resolution in opposition to Mid-City Financial's luxury redevelopment plan at Brookland Manor. The resolution expresses strong support for the reasonable and viable demands of the Brookland Manor Residents Association,...
Read More ShareResources from the Community, For the Community
November 30, 2017
By Rebecca Harris, ONE DC memberRaising more than $5,000 for the Black Workers & Wellness Center, Showing Up for Racial Justice DC (SURJ) & ONE DC hosted a teach-in fundraiser on November 13th featuring...
Read More ShareArmed Security Forces Terrorize Brookland Manor Community
November 16, 2017
Developer Mid-City Financial's hired, armed security forces continue to escalate harassment and intimidation at Brookland Manor in Northeast Washington, DC, where Mid-City is attempting to install a luxury redevelopment plan at the expense of...
Read More ShareHistorically Black DC Paper Publishes Article Supporting Displacement of Black Families
October 10, 2017
Historically Black DC paper, the Washington Informer, has published an article that supports a plan for gentrification, and the displacement of hundreds of Black families from Northeast Washington, DC.The article is co-written by Thaddeus...
Read More SharePower to the People: Reflections from the People's Congress of Resistance, September 16-17, 2017
September 30, 2017
By Caitlin Cocilova and Kristi Matthews "I was generally inspired by the People's Congress of Resistance...I also got choked up when marching from Howard University to the White House almost to the point of...
Read More ShareLink Up for Black August
September 12, 2017
By Angie Whitehurst For our monthly People's Platform political education event, ONE DC held "Link Up for Black August" at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre. Black August is a month of commemoration of the death...
Read More ShareThe Struggle at Dahlgreen Courts
August 14, 2017
In 2011, Dahlgreen Courts residents exercised their rights under D.C.’s Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (also known as TOPA) to purchase the two-building, 96 unit historic complex in partnership with a Philadelphia-based non-profit developer,...
Read More ShareMetro: Profits Over People
August 02, 2017
Below is a speech given by Ms J at the Transit Justice Rally with the Save Our System Coalition on June 29, 2017. Good evening. My name is Jourgette Reid-Sillah. I am a resident...
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