2025 Funding and Reform Priorities: D.C. Must Choose to Support Its People

Posted on Apr 29, 2025 in DC Budget, DC Policies and Plans, Homelessness, Housing, Law, People, Poverty, Uncategorized |

2025 Funding and Reform Priorities: D.C. Must Choose to Support Its People   Over the years, we have seen two categories of harmful responses when D.C. elected leaders claim, rightfully or not, that there are not enough resources to meet the pressing needs in the community: 1) cuts or underfunding of housing and human services programs, and 2) tightening of eligibility or reduction in legal rights of participants in those programs. Both of...

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Action Alert: Oppose Emergency Bill that Narrows Access to ERAP and Increases Evictions, Harming Both DC Tenants and Landlords

Posted on Sep 26, 2024 in Action Alert, DC Policies and Plans, Housing, Law, Poverty, Uncategorized |

Chairman Mendelson circulated an emergency bill, to be voted on on Tuesday, October 1, that will do nothing to address the affordability crisis that both landlords and tenants are asking for assistance with. Instead, the bill will narrow eligibility for emergency rental assistance (ERAP), lengthen the amount of time it takes to process ERAP applications, and allow evictions to happen even when the landlord or the government agency is at fault...

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Join Tenant Advocates in Opposing Emergency Legislation to “Reform” DC Housing Authority Board

Posted on Dec 19, 2022 in Action Alert, DC Policies and Plans, Housing, Law, Uncategorized |

Today, the Legal Clinic joins our legal services and tenant advocacy colleagues in urging the D.C. Council to vote no on the District of Columbia Housing Authority Stabilization and Reform Emergency Amendment Act of 2022. See below for the letter we sent to the Council today. Take action to urge your elected representatives to pursue real reform instead of this bill, which is harmful at worst, performative at best. Send an email with Empower...

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Over 50 Organizations and Experts Demand That the DC Council Reform Rapid Re-housing

Posted on Apr 7, 2022 in Clients, DC Budget, DC Policies and Plans, Homelessness, Housing, Law, Poverty, Uncategorized, Wealth Gap |

The following letter was submitted to the DC Council on behalf of 69 organizations and experts. Don’t forget to send an email and sign up for a call-in day echoing these asks to your elected leaders! DC Council members, We, the undersigned organizations, join together to ask you to stop Mayor Bowser from terminating DC residents from the rapid re-housing program for hitting an arbitrary time limit. This year, as many as 913 families are...

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Do you need a lawyer?

Posted on Nov 22, 2013 in Uncategorized |

If you are homeless and have a legal problem, we might be able to help you.  Learn more about your rights and how to connect with an attorney.

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