The 13th & Savannah campaign took place in the summer of 2017. The owner of the garden-style apartment complex, Solid Properties, aimed to sell the 65 low-income units to a for-profit developer....
Residents at Museum Square's sister property, Mount Vernon Plaza, received letters mandating a $500+ a month rent increase. Azieb Tesfamariam, a recent immigrant from Eritrea and single mother of three, was looking...
The first Kelsey Garden tenants are excited and planning to move back to their Shaw neighborhood in the fall of 2014. It has been eight years of struggle and adjustment for Kelsey...
"They want to cash in on the changing face of Shaw." -Ms. Andrea Christie, long-time resident at Lincoln Westmoreland II, now Heritage at Shaw Station. The building owners opted out of the...
On Emancipation Day, April 16th, 2015, ONE DC members sent the below letter to Mayor Muriel Bowser, City Administrator Rashad Young, Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Brian Kenner, and Councilmember...
Barry Farm Study Circle, Barry Farm Tenants and Allies Association, Empower DC, and ONE DC continue to fight to preserve the history of Barry Farm and stop displacement of public housing residents....
The Duncan Coop is a group of long time Petworth residents who were able to purchase their 24-unit apartment building in October 2006 with the help of ONE DC. They organized themselves...
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Latino Coop is located on 11th Street, NW in DC's Shaw neighborhood. With ONE DC's help, the tenants purchased the building in 2006 with a $7.8 million...
1330 7th Street is a 137-unit building located two blocks from the Convention Center. After it was listed for sale in the spring of 2002, ONE DC assisted tenants in exercising their...
For the first half of the 20th century the site formerly known as Temperance Alley contained 23 dwellings for working class African American families. Though the housing was affordable, it was also...