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What’s Going on with Housing and Homelessness in DC During the Public Health Emergency?
On April 7, DC Council voted on supplemental emergency legislation on the COVID-19 public health emergency. We’ve updated this post to include information on what was passed in that legislation. Read more…
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| UpdateWays To Help & Ways to Get Help During COVID-19
We’re doing our best to stay on top of the many resources available to help people get through the COVID-19 crisis. Check this post for information on both how to get help and how to help. Read more…
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| UpdateCOVID-19 Updates from the Legal Clinic
We will update this post with information about how to access Legal Clinic services, as well as ways to support neighbors and community partners during this rapidly evolving situation. Read more…
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| UpdateHonoring the neighbors we lost this year
We long for the day when no lives will be lost to homelessness. In the meantime, the greatest honor that we can pay to those who died this past year is to re-commit ourselves to doing all that we can to ensure that every District resident has a place to call home. Read more…
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People Power and Community Lawyering
As People Power Action heads into its fourth year, its members will continue to provide invaluable knowledge for District residents through their trainings, and continue to build a welcoming community for people who want to push for transformation of systemic injustices. Read more…
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DC Further Narrows Access to Shelter and Housing Resources
More than a year and a half after the law that governs shelter and housing changed, the Bowser Administration has released regulations interpreting the new sections. Read more…
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DC’s Public Housing Crisis: Centering Solutions on Needs of Current and Future Tenants
Last winter, the DC Housing Authority released a report that concluded that the District’s public housing stock was in crisis, with 2500 of its units “nearly uninhabitable.” Since that point we have been working with fellow advocates to figure out a path forward that appropriately balances the pressing needs of current tenants for habitable units with the preservation of deeply affordable, low barrier public housing. Read more…
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| UpdateIt’s #DoMore24 2019 – Be A Voice for Housing and Justice Today!
Thank you for being part of our community of fierce advocates for housing justice here in DC! Read more…
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| UpdateMake this a Housing Justice kind of #GivingTuesday!
We are so very grateful for your readership, your advocacy engagement, and your support of the Legal Clinic. Happy #GivingTuesday! Read more…