Category: Advocacy
Bread for the City Staff and Clients Testify at D.C. DHS Performance Oversight Hearing
Bread for the City staff member Kate Baasch testifies on behalf of Bread for the City’s Legal Clinic.
BFC Stands with our AAPI Community and Allies.
Another mass shooting. Another terrorized community.
Meet Our Racial Equity Managers!
CAM (they/them) is a neuroexpansive, non-binary Black radical community organizer currently based in DC. CAM is excited to join the Bread for the City staff to support the advancement of Bread's mission and the current work of the Racial Equity Leadership Team. In their free time, CAM enjoys building community with their neighbors through community care and attempting to win baking competitions with friends.
Testimony of BFC Attorney Allison Miles-Lee, Bread for the City in Support of “Paternity Establishment Amendment Act of 2022”
On May 5, the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety had its first public hearing on the “Paternity Establishment Amendment Act of 2022.” This amendment would make it easier to obtain court-ordered DNA testing when someone has reason to believe there was a mistake in the signing of an Acknowledgment of Paternity (AOP).
Statement from Bread for the City on Mass Shooting in Buffalo, New York
Bread for the City calls on all leaders at every level of government to not only condemn this act of violence, but to condemn white nationalism and the troubling and dangerously hateful rhetoric that fueled this terrorist and fuels many with public platforms even now. Along with these condemnations, we push, urgently, for not only the gun reforms that study after study have shown work to mitigate violent acts but also for long-overdue investments in Black and brown communities across America.
Statement of Solidarity with Organizers at the Supreme Court
We are deeply concerned by the news coming out of the Supreme Court of the United States over the last two days. The unverified, leaked documents that indicate a reversal on Roe v. Wade by the highest court in the land do not only threaten reproductive rights and the ability for individuals and families to make their own healthcare decisions, but indicate a potential unraveling of protections that would allow states to criminalize abortion
This year’s Fair Budget Platform is LIVE!
Bread for the City is a proud member of the Fair Budget Coalition, a collection of organizations advocating for budget and public policy initiatives that address systemic social, racial, and economic inequality in DC. Every budget season, our coalition puts out a budget platform with policies that center and invest in communities that have, for too long, experienced divestment and destabilization in DC. Our recommendations are based on a whole-person and whole-community approach to resource reallocation. Read the full platform here!
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.
Bread for the City Attorney Testifies on Transparency and the Housing Production Trust Fund
Dimitri McDaniel, Staff Attorney at Bread for the City's Legal Clinic, testified at a Performance Oversight Hearing before the Committee on Housing & Executive Administration regarding the Department of Housing & Community Development and the Housing Production Trust Fund. Bread for the City advocates for increased transparency around the Housing Production Trust Fund through the passing of the Housing Production Trust Fund Transparency Amendment Act of 2021.