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Dispatches from the Affordable Housing Initiative: Brookland Manor
This struggle continues in the context of the affordable housing crisis that grips all of DC, but that has caused the most damage and continues to loom most threateningly in low-income communities of color.
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Dispatches from the Affordable Housing Initiative: Congress Heights
The Alabama Ave/13th Street Tenant Coalition Continues the Struggle to Exercise Rights Under the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act
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DC Council, We Urge You to Vote ‘Yes’ on the D.C. General Resident Relocation Emergency Act of 2018
We support the closure of DC General, but only if it is done in a way that improves the conditions that families live in and ensures that there is enough shelter for all who need it.
Bowser Administration Misled the Public About DC General Replacement Shelter Progress—Will the DC Council Hold Them Accountable?
Legal Clinic attorney Amber Harding delivered this testimony before the DC Council Committee on Human Services and Committee on Transportation and the Environment on June 25, 2018.
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Stay safe and hydrated, and save the shelter hotline number in your phone (202-399-7093); it could help you save a life this summer!
