Ward 8

Adrienne Dove pulled up to the checkout line of the Giant grocery store in Southeast Washington with a cart filled with cabbage, bananas and bagged string beans.

Two decades before Mayor Muriel Bowser, Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White (D), DC Housing Authority Executive Director Tyrone Garrett and members of the local development and faith-based communities gathered on Robinson Place SE to cut the…

The disturbing statistics linking geography in and around Washington with recent life-expectancy rates buries the hard truth: the District is still a city sadly divided by race, class and income.

When people in the District of Columbia think of Ward 8 neighborhoods, Anacostia usually comes to mind first because of its close location to the river that bears the same name and its growing arts community, business corridors and…

In 2015, a planned-unit development (PUD) was approved to replace a shopping center at the corner of Wheeler Road and Barnaby Street SE. Now, the developer is seeking another extension for the project.

The proposed fiscal year (FY) 2020 budget shortchanges all DCPS schools, but particularly schools in Wards 7 and 8, which have the largest concentration of low-income students of color. In a city with both growing prosperity and deepening…

Wards 7 and 8 have more than 150,000 residents, and only three of the city’s 49 grocery stores. (For comparison, Ward 7 has just as many grocery stores—two—as a 0.1 mile stretch of Columbia Heights.)

Chipotle Mexican Grill is opening a restaurant in Anacostia, nearly 26 years after the chain’s founding.

A group of DC residents is taking matters into its own hands to bring more grocery options east of the Anacostia River.

Many of the healthcare services people receive have shifted away from hospital campuses into community-based facilities, often adapting vacant retail spaces into primary care and urgent care centers.

An initiative to improve the health outcomes of Ward 7 and 8 residents seeks funds from the D.C. government to expand its work.

Paulette Matthews, the Vice President of the Barry Farm Tenants and Allies Association, regularly attends the D.C. Housing Authority Board of Commissioners meeting, asking for an update on Barry Farm, a public housing development in…

Although Mayor Muriel Bowser’s 2020 budget increases spending on public education, schools in wards 7 and 8 are set to see significant drops in funding, according to a recent report from the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute.

The closure will force patients to seek services elsewhere.