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Earlier this week, Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau held a roundtable on emergency rental assistance. Roundtables are basically hearings on a particular issue rather than a piece of legislation. The purpose of this one was to solicit input, particularly from service providers, on how to distribute federal emergency rental assistance. DC will be receiving $200 million as part of a $25 billion rental relief package approved by Congress last year, for this purpose. Nadeau, the chair of the human services committee, oversees the Department of Human Services, which administers the District’s ...

Tenants at Bedford and Victoria Station apartments protesting over conditions in the apartment building. Image by Trent Leon-Lierman used with permission. The Bedford and Victoria Station Apartment complex in Langley Park, Maryland is a microcosm of immigrant neighborhoods across the region. Like tenants in Chirilagua, Culmore, Manassas Park, and Montgomery Village, tenants at Bedford and Victoria Station apartments say they are confronting a trifecta of challenges: a global pandemic, severe unemployment, and landlord neglect. The first challenge is an act of nature. The second is a direct ...

By Katie Trojano, Reporter Staff January 21, 2021 Katie Trojano, Reporter Staff Steve Meacham, organizing coordinator at CLVU, at right, talks to protesters at the standout at Humphreys Place last Friday. Katie Trojano photo Neighbors opposed to a proposed five-story condo complex on what is now a vacant lot in Uphams Corner gathered outside a nearby apartment building last Friday to rally against the plan— and to call on city planning officials to respond to their concerns. City Life/Vida Urbana— a tenant advocacy group— and the Dorchester Not for Sale organization set up the stand-o...

  The City Council is considering two bills that seek to ensure more affordable housing is created and controlled by nonprofits. One measure, dubbed the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, would require city-approved nonprofit organizations or community land trusts be given the first chance to buy residential buildings with three or more apartments when they are put up for sale. The other would create a land bank that would warehouse properties and then prioritize selling them to community land trusts and nonprofits. The aim of both bills, according to its sponsors, is to ensure such prop...

The last of the big vetoes were handed down Friday when Baker, while signing a $16.5 billion transportation bond bill, hacked off a series of proposals.