gentrification

Election 2024·State & Local·Voting·Ward 8·Washington D.C.

Initiative 83, Gentrification, and Housing Justice: Key Issues Drive Ward 8’s ANC Race

November 9, 2024

Vida Poyner-ChilliousandAnijah Franklin

By Vida Poyner-Chillious and Anijah Franklin Howard University News Service As D.C. residents entered Union Temple…

DNC·Election 2024

Local Residents React To DNC and Revitalization Plans Around United Center

August 24, 2024

Trinity KinslowandTrinity Webster-Bass

By Trinity Kinslow, Audio Report By Trinity Webster-Bass Howard University News Service As the Democratic National…

Environment·State & Local·Third Reconstruction·Washington D.C.

Not In My Neighborhood: DC Community Residents Speak Out Against Hazardous Plant

March 14, 2023

by Summer Brown

By Summer Brown, NewsVision Reporter Environmental injustice is just one example of systemic racism facing…

Breathing While Black·Water Pollution

Runoff: How Will Anacostia Improvements Flow Through Lives East of the River

April 12, 2022

by Isaac Welch

By Isaac Welch Howard University News Service Running 8.5 miles from Bladensburg, Maryland, to Hain’s Point…

Off-campus·State & Local·Video

Life Before Gentrification: One DC Man’s Story

April 30, 2019

by Jennifer Thomas

In Washington, D.C. more than 20,000 African American families have been displaced due to gentrification. Here…

Video

December 16, 2017

by Shawna Mizelle

The changing of a neighborhood Redevelopment in Washington, D.C. has been a hot topic for quite…

Video

Wanda’s on 7th is Here to Stay

December 1, 2017

by Judayah Murray

Local Business Owner Survives, Thrives through Gentrification Wanda Henderson, owner of Wanda's on 7th salon, is…

News

Black Churches Being Pushed Out of Nation’s Capital

October 17, 2016

by Courtney Davis

Gentrification in Washington, D.C. Residential only parking signs like these are pushing African-American churches out of…

Video

Vacant Housing in the Nation’s Capital

March 11, 2016

by Tiffani DuPree

Photo courtesy: washingtoncitypaper.com The D.C. community is no stranger to new housing and constant construction, but…

Video

A Community Crumbles: Barry Farm Set for Demolition

November 16, 2015

by Howard University News Service

Residents of Barry Farm Public Housing Community Fear a Future of Uncertainty After the Civil War,…