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Detrice Belt, head of the Barry Farm Tenants and Allies Association, takes notes on landlord neglect during the People’s Right to Housing Assembly hosted by One DC at the Black Workers and Wellness Center in southeast D.C. on July 6. (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer)

D.C. Residents Discuss Future of Affordable Housing

by Sam P.K. Collins July 10, 2019December 21, 2021

For more than a decade, neighborhood revitalization in the District has been synonymous with neglect and displacement of low-income tenants.

Historian C.R. Gibbs lectures students about the many plantations located in and around Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia and how life was for African Americans during the time of Emancipation until the present day at Emancipation Day Freedom School held at THEARC in southeast D.C. on April 16. (Robert Roberts/The Washington Informer)

Freedom School Bridges D.C. Emancipation Day’s Past and Present

by Sam P.K. Collins April 17, 2019December 21, 2021

In the District of Columbia, a shortage of affordable housing, a hyper-expensive rental market and aging and vanishing housing stock has had tenants battling spiraling rents and housing costs and left them at increased risk of getting displaced. (Courtesy of NNPA Newswire)

How Healthy Is Gentrification?

by WI Guest Author January 14, 2019October 31, 2020