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| Right to housing members participate in an interactive map of experiences with displacement in DC: “She couldn’t ever afford to buy her home.” |
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| "My grandmother lives in Northeast. They’re watching their neighborhood change. They get cold calls of people wanting to buy their home.” |
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| Displacement by force is one way long-time DC residents have lost their homes: “I became a victim of domestic violence. And then I actually lost my housing voucher since they said I had too much money in my account.” |
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| “My mom and I kept falling into the cracks. I went straight from being a ward of the state to case closed homeless at 17.” |
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| “We want you to think big. We want you to think about institutions.” |
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| Participants share their experiences of landlord neglect in DC within breakout groups: “The whole soap dish was black from mold. Then they hired inexperienced workers who mishandled it.” |
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| Some people felt they couldn’t be secure in housing unless they could afford to buy a house: “The system is responsible and they keep doing it to us. They wouldn’t do this if it was white people.” |
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| “We want to take our anger and our issues to DCHA, DCRA and Mayor Bowser. We need to study and reflect before we can assess and attack.” |
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| Nae came to the Right to Housing Mini-Assembly to fight for justice, just like her idol Ida B. Wells. |
Next up for ONE DC’s Right to Housing Committee is the Freedom School. We’ll dive deeper into the issues raised by participants in the mini assembly: Displacement by Force and Landlord Neglect. All of this work will lead to our city-wide People’s Assembly in the Fall. To get involved, email Patrick at [email protected] or call 202.232.2915.