In the Media

The District of Columbia must face a lawsuit over its slow processing of food-stamp applications and its failure to notify recipients when it's time to recertify their benefits, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

D.C.’s public housing residents have a common refrain when they talk about the conditions of their homes.

The threat of eviction is nothing new for the millions of families who have been forced out of their homes, potentially leaving their neighborhoods, schools, and support systems behind.

D.C. officials insisted on Monday that Mayor Muriel Bowser’s plan to close and demolish the D.C.

Carson’s proposal, if approved by Congress, would at least triple the minimum rent that extremely low-income Americans pay for housing.

Can you help the poor by allowing them to build credit with their rent payments? The D.C. Council thinks so, having unanimously approved the Public Housing Credit Building Pilot Program Act of 2017.

Officials who administer food stamps in the District of Columbia must divert resources to improve how the agency processes applications, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

Despite high rents in the District of Columbia, annual reports from the DC courts show a downward trend in eviction filings. The number of evictions filed by landlords fell from 48,000 in 2003 to just over 31,000 in 2017.

The law at issue is the 38-year-old Tenants Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA), which allows any renter of an apartment or single-family home in D.C. the right of first refusal when the homeowner wants to sell.