Affordable housing

A proposed update to Mayor Muriel Bowser’s Homeward DC plan is drawing some flak over complaints about inadequate transparency as well as doubts about the city government’s ability to fulfill ambitious goals. The DC Interagency Council…

An attorney testifies that her client’s children have visible bites from insects and rodents. A mother tries to justify why she had to grab a gun to save her son’s life. Another openly weeps when she discloses that her rental voucher…

On Thursday evening, a candlelight procession downtown and then an overnight vigil in Freedom Plaza will pay tribute to 81 men and women who died in DC over the past year “of preventable and manageable diseases without the dignity of a…

What were they thinking? The entire DC Council — led by at-large member Anita Bonds, chair of the Committee on Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization — either co-introduced or co-sponsored the Rental Housing Act Extension…

After hours of testimony, DC lawmakers seemed doubtful about city agencies’ reform efforts in the wake of a deadly fire in the Brightwood Park neighborhood. Monday’s DC Council hearing was scheduled after Fox 5 and The Washington Post…

DC has not yet met its years-old goal of eliminating veteran homelessnesss, but new permanent housing, better data and improved identification of veterans all provide grounds for optimism that it may soon do so. The District has steadily…

Chad Jackson, a vendor for Street Sense Media and a formerly homeless veteran, served as a welder in the military from 1993 to 2000. When he returned home after his service, Jackson instantly felt the need to escape. He chose to live on…

When faced with troublesome executive-branch or independent agencies, the DC Council’s solution has become nauseatingly predictable. Members, separately and collectively, propose a new agency, office or commission as an antidote for the…

When DC Mayor Muriel Bowser announced earlier this month her intention to place more affordable, low-cost housing in neighborhoods long perceived as havens for the wealthy or the near-wealthy, humanists in the city surely must have smiled.…

“Anybody can choose to operate a rental business in the shadows. That’s just a reality,” Ernest Chrappah, director of the DC Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA), recently told The Washington Post. His comment came after a…

Earlier this year, Mayor Muriel Bowser snatched money from the city’s contingency reserve fund. By June 30, the account was down from $279.7 million to $194.7 million, according to a report released by the Office of the Chief Financial…

At a recent celebration, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson personally congratulated the most recent class of seven new homeowners for successfully completing the DC Housing Authority’s little-known Home…

Input from residents is set to play a key role in a report on the state of fair housing in the District being compiled in order to comply with federal mandates that local governments combat historical patterns of segregation and crack down…