News

September 26, 2024

| Advocacy

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

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, […] Read more…
July 29, 2024

| Advocacy

Open Letter to Mayor Bowser: Keep Families Housed Until They Transfer to Permanent Housing Programs

We are writing to ask you to halt the exits of families in rapid re-housing until the Department of Human Services (DHS) and the D.C. Housing Authority (DCHA) can complete the housing voucher eligibility and lease-up process for the significant number of vouchers that are available now or by October 1. Read more…
July 26, 2024

| Advocacy

Rapid Rehousing: What Happened and What’s Next?

We want to take a moment to update you on what has happened with rapid re-housing over the last few months and what the families being terminated for reaching a time limit are facing in the next few months Read more…
July 11, 2024

| Advocacy

The FY25 Budget: Disappointments and Disinvestments

While there are a few noteworthy housing investments and D.C. Council made some progress in reducing the harm of the mayor’s original budget proposal, the final FY25 budget remains one of the most disappointing and regressive budgets for housing resources and housing justice in recent years. Read more…
May 17, 2024

| Advocacy

There is a Better Way to Clear Encampments: Housing

The better—more humane and effective—way to respond to any concerns about encampments is to provide low barrier and accessible shelter and housing opportunities. Author: Joshua M. Drumming, Law Graduate, Policy and Advocacy Read more…
April 29, 2024

| Advocacy

End the Cliff: We Must Prevent 2,200 Families from Losing Housing

Without significant investment in permanent housing resources and real reform to the broken rapid re-housing program, thousands of D.C. families will lose their housing support and likely face eviction or homelessness. Read more…
April 25, 2024

| Update

Supreme Court Debates Rights of Unhoused and Unsheltered People

Providing housing instead of handcuffs is not only the moral, effective, and humane choice, but also the Constitutional one. Read more…
March 12, 2024

| Advocacy

2024 Funding and Reform Priorities

The Legal Clinic continues to advance advocacy that centers housing and racial justice for D.C. residents. Budget cuts and further underinvestment in human services cannot be D.C.’s response to increasing rates of homelessness, soaring housing instability, and plummeting housing affordability. Read more…
March 4, 2024

| Update

Support Housing Justice and Celebrate the 37th Annual Home Court Season!

We hope you can join us at this year’s game day on March 28, support our work with a donation, and spread the word about the Legal Clinic so that we enter this next year stronger than ever as we work together toward on this vital mission. Read more…
December 19, 2023

| Update

On National Homeless Persons’ Remembrance Day and Every Day, D.C. Must Do More to Save Lives

The Legal Clinic will stand with our friends at the People for Fairness Coalition this week at the 11th Annual Memorial and Vigil to commemorate those lives lost. We will continue to stand with our unhoused clients every single day to demand that the D.C. government prioritize the lives and needs of people by ensuring that everyone in D.C. has access to safe, accessible shelter and housing. Read more…