Legal Aid Society of DC

A D.C. woman has filed suit against the District of Columbia Housing Authority for cutting her voucher benefits after she divorced her allegedly abusive husband, despite several attempts from her and her legal counsel to advise DCHA of her…

It wasn’t the first time the 45-year-old woman’s husband had verbally abused her. But last September, he “spiraled out of control,” she said. In front of their children in their Northeast D.C. living room, he threatened to stab her to…