Category: Housing Crisis
Unpacking Safety: Why DC’s Budget Cuts Are a Community Concern
DC budget cuts are an issue of safety, and the DC community deserves better.
A Call to Action: Tell DC Council It’s Past Time to Fix Rapid Re-housing
In partnership with The Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, Bread for the City, along with dozens of organizations and experts, submitted the following letter to the DC Council demanding that they reform rapid-rehousing in the District. To get involved in this effort, get in touch with your City Council representative and submit a letter through The Action Network.
STAY DC Eviction Prevention Funding Letter to Mayor Bowser
We, the undersigned 33 organizations are writing to ask you to use reserves, underspending from government agencies, and/or other funds not dedicated to help DC residents living on low incomes meet basic needs (including but not limited to affordable housing efforts) to provide eviction prevention funding. The stakes are too high to shut down our eviction prevention efforts now. We estimate the unmet need for rental arrears is approximately $74.9 million, and we ask you to identify at least this much funding to meet this need as well as the need for utility arrears which we are not able to estimate.
BFC Statement: No Camping Zones
Bread for the City joins fellow non-profit leaders in DC in requesting that the DC government halt the CARE Pilot Program and stop the creation of “no camping zones,” which are reminiscent of other types of zoning that, throughout our history, have disenfranchised, displaced, disrupted, and destroyed Black neighborhoods and communities. Housing ends homelessness. Bread for the City is opposed to the creation of “no camping zones” and the systematic clearing of encampments.
Breaking Bread: Housing Justice in DC
Join us for a previously recorded Breaking Bread conversation series on housing justice in DC, including dialogue on protecting tenants’ rights, affordable housing development and preservation, public housing redevelopment, and more.
The Community Lawyering Project partners with organizers for affordable housing
Many people in Washington D.C. are still struggling to find a consistent income to pay their rent and people still need assistance because of the pandemic. Last month, Bread for the City attorney, Jack Meaney the Festival of Tenants, a community event held by the Cancel Rent Coalition in D.C., where there were informational booths, community activities, and resources for tenants. The event was held in Ward 5 to target Councilmember Kenyan R. McDuffie, who has not yet pledged his support for the coalition’s demands.
Tell DC Council: End Homelessness and Repair Public Housing!
Housing literally saves lives—and the combination of COVID-19 and DC’s underinvestment in deeply affordable housing will undoubtedly further racial inequity.
The DC Council Must Vote NO on the Coronavirus Public Health Extension Emergency Act of 2021
Bread for the City strongly encourages the DC Council to vote “no” on Chairman Mendelson’s proposed amendment to the eviction moratorium, the Coronavirus Public Health Extension Emergency Act of 2021. Landlords are currently prohibited from serving eviction notices and filing new eviction cases against tenants for the nonpayment of rent.
How We’re Building Power in DC
A new grant from the Weissberg Foundation is helping us organize communities around affordable housing. Read on to see what we're up to!
Bread for the City Attorney’s Fight to Protect Public Housing Tenants Reaches DC Council
From the courtroom to the city council, Bread for the City attorneys are going to bat for public housing tenants across the city. Read on to find out what's being done at the City Council to protect public housing tenants from displacement.