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Critics say her push for development has accelerated the affordability crisis in the city. → Read More
Alexandria home prices got a boost from being near new affordable housing projects, an Urban Institute study shows. → Read More
The mayor believes accessory dwellings can alleviate the affordable housing shortage. → Read More
The apartment where James lives in Southeast Washington has been without functioning heat for more than four months. She’s spent all winter trying to get relief — calls to the Banneker Place Apartments’ management company, complaints to the District’s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA); she even filed a civil suit in D.C. Superior Court. But as February dragged on, she said,… → Read More
As cases of the coronavirus’s delta variant spread through the region last year, positive tests would appear in ones and twos. But then came omicron. Kasia Shaw, a nurse practitioner and the senior director of medical services for PathForward, the nonprofit organization that runs the homeless services center for Arlington County, Va., was conducting routine testing in late December when she… → Read More
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser announces 800 new affordable housing units, including a senior facility in Friendship Heights. → Read More
The shelter, which is equipped to house 396 people and more during hypothermia season, replaces the old 801 East men’s shelter and includes specialty facilities for seniors, men in need of medical care, and working men with employment demands. → Read More
Both the church and the residents say they are the victims of gentrification. → Read More
The blaze damaged a tent and belongings, but no injuries were reported. → Read More
Seven D.C. Council members opposed the legislation as homeless residents and advocates gathered for demonstrations and services to mark the nationally observed Homeless Persons Memorial Day and remember those who have died this year. The bill would have paused all encampment evictions through the end of the District’s coldest months and established a formal process by which homeless residents… → Read More
In the absence of government mandates, merchants, individuals and families are left to erect their own guardrails in an effort to stay safe from another worsening wave of infections. → Read More
The market for office space was already slowing before the pandemic when office workers abandoned downtown en masse and have yet to fully return. → Read More
Two of Maryland’s largest counties will stop taking applications this month for federally backed emergency rent relief meant to help struggling landlords and tenants. → Read More
Members of the council’s committee on human services expressed growing concern over the mayor’s pilot program that aims to permanently eliminate some of the District’s largest homeless encampments by offering housing to some homeless residents and instituting permanent no-camping zones. → Read More
The delay in plans comes about a week after a heated D.C. Council hearing, in which council members, homeless advocates and encampment residents themselves questioned the merits and motivations of the mayor’s pilot program. → Read More
Researchers with the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University traced current racial inequities to past policies that choked off resources to Black communities tucked away in and around the affluent suburbs of the nation’s capital. → Read More
The hearing, which included more than 50 witnesses and spanned more than seven hours, exposed a bitter divide in the District over the government’s approach to homelessness and encampments. Turnage testified that homeless encampments that have filled D.C. parks and sidewalks with tents have increased by more than 40 percent over the past year, creating an untenable situation that he described as… → Read More
The abrupt move comes as developers have begun shifting their focus toward the final phase of the Wharf’s ongoing redevelopment project. → Read More
Residents said as they have waited for promises of better housing to come to fruition, ongoing issues have only gotten worse. → Read More
Albert resigned earlier this week. → Read More