The legislation could give Mayor Muriel E. Bowser more control over governance of the embattled agency as its leaders work to comply with federal standards
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson have introduced emergency legislation that would dissolve the D.C. Housing Authority’s current 13-member Board of Commissioners and replace it with what they call a!-->…
Everyone seems to agree: more solar energy is a good thing. But a bill to require more solar in the District is dividing environmental advocates. Some say it’s needed to keep the local solar industry from crashing, while others say it!-->…
The D.C. Council wants to make WMATA bus service fare-free in the District next year. If approved, D.C. would become one of the largest and most prominent cities in the country to make the bus free at the fare box.
On Wednesday, members of a D.C. Council committee tasked with overseeing the city’s housing authority questioned the agency’s plans to lean on turnaround consultants to fix issues identified by federal housing officials.
D.C. Housing Authority officials faced more than three hours of questions and criticism from lawmakers on Wednesday, much of which was focused on whether, how, and how quickly the troubled agency will be able to address dozens of!-->…
Reyna Sosa has been street vending in the heart of Columbia Heights for about a decade. Almost every day, she sells antojitos – snacks in the form of pieces of mango and watermelon, taquitos, yuca with chicharron, and many flavors of the!-->…
In a closed session, DCHA commissioners discussed Brenda Donald’s icy relationship with the internal auditor as Donald released the agency’s response to HUD’s damning audit.