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D.C. Community Leaders Share ‘Better Than Before’ Housing Plans
In a recent online forum, D.C. community leaders laid out several housing plans to meet Mayor Muriel Bowser's challenge of…
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Grassroots Org Pushes D.C. Mayor to Earmark Crummell School Funding
Forty years ago, historic Alexander Crummell School, located in the heart of D.C.'s Ivy City community, was shuttered and fenced…
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Webinar to Address D.C. Housing Woes During Pandemic
A webinar moderated by attorney Caitlin Cocilova of the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless will be held at 1:30…
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Residents, Advocates to D.C. Mayor: Don’t Wash Your Hands of Public Housing
As D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser prepares the city's fiscal budget, public housing residents, along with a coalition of tenant organizing,…
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D.C.’s Barry Farm Designated as Historic Landmark
By a unanimous vote, DC's Historic Preservation Review Board on Thursday designated a portion of Barry Farm on Stevens Road…
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Timeline for Barry Farm
In early 1868, the federal Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands purchased 375 acres from the heirs of Washington…
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Barry Farm Nominated for Historic Landmark Status
A group of displaced public housing residents is asking the DC Historic Preservation Review Board to grant historic landmark status…
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Barry Farm Rally Postponed
A rally scheduled for Monday in support of the occupants in the Barry Farm complex in southeast D.C. has been…
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Women of D.C.’s Public Housing Share Their Stories on Stage
For many, life in public housing can oftentimes be a bleak existence — and an untold one.
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