The Same Property Management Companies and Building Owners Pressuring Tenants to Pay Rent Are Benefitting From Pandemic Relief Funding

As the pandemic drags on, tenants and housing advocates report hostile confrontations with property managers over unpaid rent.

The first time she remembers protesting in the region, about 10 years ago, Tara Maxwell was outside the Virginia home of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. His wife Virginia, the target of Maxwell’s ire that day, is a prominent right-wing lobbyist and current adviser to President Donald Trump’s administration. “If I can protest at Clarence […]

by Morgan Baskin

DHS to End Use of the Days Inn Motel on New York Ave. NE for Emergency Shelter

It marks the end of D.C.’s years-long reliance on motels to house the homeless.

On Aug. 24, D.C. will move the last of its families experiencing homelessness out of New York Ave. NE’s Days Inn, ending a years-long reliance on the property as emergency overflow shelter, a spokesperson for the Department of Human Services confirms to City Paper. As of late July, D.C. also ended its contract with the […]

by Morgan Baskin

Anita Bonds Does a 180 on Funding for Public Housing Repairs

The chair of the D.C. Council's housing committee voted against directing funds to the DC Housing Authority.

Shortly after declining to commit to a timeline for reforming local rent control laws by declaring that the public should not expect her to be “cutting my finger and bleeding blood,” At-Large D.C. Councilmember Anita Bonds voted down an effort to divert $35 million from a planned expansion of the H St. NE streetcar to the […]

by Morgan Baskin

Ward 6 Family Homeless Shelter Fails Inspection, Won’t Open Until Late July

D.C. officials initially projected that it would open in 2019.

A newly built family homeless shelter on Delaware Ave. SW, in Ward 6, won’t begin accepting families until “late July” after failing at least one building inspection, a person with direct knowledge of the news tellsCity Paper—despite the fact that D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to formally “open” the facility on Feb. […]

by Morgan Baskin

The Coronavirus Pandemic in a D.C. Public Housing Complex

With multiple deaths related to COVID-19 occurring in an 18-unit public housing building, tenants clean and care for their own building.

The Kelly Miller Dwellings in LeDroit Park was the kind of tight-knit community where, before the COVID-19 pandemic hit it, residents would sit outside, play music, and talk for hours. And no wonder: Some tenants of the scattered-site 160-unit public housing complex, located just behind Howard University Hospital, have lived there for 30 years.  So […]

by Amanda Michelle Gomez

D.C. to Permanently End Placements for Homeless Families at Quality Inn

59 families currently live in the motel on New York Avenue NE.

D.C. will permanently discontinue its contract next month with the Quality Inn, a motel on New York Ave. NE that Department of Human Services officials have used for years as a place to temporarily shelter homeless families. Noah Abraham, a deputy administrator at the Department of Human Services who oversees the agency’s programming for homeless […]

by Morgan Baskin

Can Mayor Bowser Follow Through on Her Plan to End Homelessness by 2025?

Five years ago, the mayor announced an ambitious plan to end homelessness, but her first term is spotted with missed deadlines and false starts.

In March 2015, two months after Muriel Bowser was sworn in as D.C.’s seventh mayor, she made an eyebrow-raising promise.  “With the Council’s support of our homeless funding plan, we will deliver on another promise: ending family homelessness by 2018,” she said during her first State of the District address. The announcement came alongside the […]

by Morgan Baskin

Home Imprudent: 1/4 Hirshhorn Edition

If you don't like to cook, we found a condo for you.

Home Imprudent, City Paper’s guide to the weirdest, wonkiest, most impractical, and outrageously priced homes in D.C. is back! Do you know of a house that should be featured? Email it to tips@washingtoncitypaper.com. Enjoy the “rare chance to combine two residencies” in this five-bedroom condo in the Watergate South, which looks like someone quartered the […]

by Morgan Baskin

What Do Bitcoin, DCRA, and Craigslist Have in Common? This Rental Scam

Two D.C. residents are suing an anonymous scammer who they say swindled them out of thousands of dollars.

Last spring, Olivia Gardner found on Craigslist what she thought was the perfect apartment. The studio unit, located on the third floor of a stylish Woodley Park condo building, was about 500 square feet and had recently been upgraded. Better yet, the apartment, listed at $1,400 a month, was pet friendly; it had been tough […]

by Morgan Baskin

Home Imprudent: Baby Glenstone Edition

Are you looking for exposed silver pipes or a unit with two kitchens?

Home Imprudent, City Paper’s guide to the weirdest, wonkiest, most impractical, and outrageously priced homes in D.C. is back! Do you know of a house that should be featured? Email it to tips@washingtoncitypaper.com. This 2,200-square-foot plot of land between Anacostia and Barry Farm, zoned for a single-family home, is up for sale at [clears throat] […]

by Morgan Baskin

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