https://hunewsservice.com Your Neighborhood. Your Nation. Your News! Mon, 03 Mar 2025 03:51:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://hunewsservice.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-407787_352128264798897_1461219382_n-1-32x32.jpg https://hunewsservice.com 32 32 https://hunewsservice.com/news/southeast-residents-tell-council-slum-lord-forcing-them-out/ Tue, 09 Feb 2016 15:40:06 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/southeast-residents-tell-council-slum-lord-forcing-them-out/ Angry residents and community representatives  told City Council that they are being forced out of their homes. Photo by Leanna Commins, HU News Service WASHINGTON — Angry Congress Heights residents and community representatives told D. C. City Council members that the property management company responsible for four affordable housing units in Southeast Washington is purposefully not repairing the property in an attempt to force out residents so it can develop the units into a more lucrative property. Residents and Will Merrifield, an attorney with the Affordable Housing Initiative for the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, told council members Phil]]>