City Paper: DCHA Says Thousands of Units Are Nearly Uninhabitable. Tenants Want to Know:…
Residents say they're playing a waiting game.
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City Paper: DC Housing Authority Board Opens Door to Privatizing Some Public Housing
A majority of commissioners on the D.C. Housing Authority board voted Thursday afternoon to establish a plan for abating the dismal conditions in thousands of the Authority’s public housing units—a plan that some attorneys and nonprofit…
Curbed DC: Federal shutdown will not affect D.C. public housing right away, says housing authority
But if the shutdown lasts for a few months, it could harm thousands of low-income residents
City Paper: Nearly One-Third of the City’s Public Housing Stock Is at Risk of Becoming Uninhabitable
D.C.’s Housing Authority says it needs $343 million in fiscal year 2019 for critical repairs.
WUSA: Final days at Barry Farm public housing in DC
Detrice Belt is moving out of Barry Farm housing development in Southeast, DC after getting weekly notices marked urgent and plus a 90-day notice to vacate by Friday, December 21st.
NPR: As A D.C. Public Housing Complex Faces Redevelopment, One Teenager Reflects
In 2016, photographer Joy Sharon Yi began taking the Metro to Barry Farm, a large public housing complex in Southeast Washington, D.C., built in 1943 on the first city settlement where African-Americans could buy property and build homes…
Courtland Milloy in The Post: Barry Farm residents still fighting for their homes, even as many…
On a hot, hazy Saturday afternoon, members of the Barry Farm Tenants and Allies Association gathered for their monthly meeting outdoors, in the shade of a large oak tree, across from the place many of them used to call home. Their community…