Grandparents

'My body is tired, but I’m not going to give up.'

A D.C. housing development serves as a refuge for grandparents raising young children. Is it a model for the rest of the country?

At age 60, Deborah Johnson thought her child-rearing days were behind her. But when hardship struck her family, she found herself raising her grandsons in a cramped, two-bedroom apartment in southeast D.C.

Antoine Pinkney hoped but didn’t know if his family’s application for an apartment would be approved when he stood near his 13-year-old granddaughter in the community playroom of the building where they hoped to move. In the room was a new…