Tenant Summit 2013! A great opportunity to become acquainted with people and nonprofit organizations throughout the city that work with tenants and tenant groups on a number of issues providing legal advice, administering rental assistance programs, working to improve housing conditions, and otherwise seeking to prevent displacement in all of DC. Come to find out what services are available to you, and learn about your rights as a DC tenant! Free registration here.
Tenant Summit 2013
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this is to help the displacement of DC residents??? the only ones who are getting displaced is the ones who do not appreciate the fact that they are living for the price of nothing… the ones who allow crackhead, drug dealers, gamblers, gang members, and other nonsense in their neighborhoods. they need to be displaced. dc need to tear down public housing… most public housing residents are older people (65 and older) who have 2-3 generations living off of them. its time for people to start taking charge of their lives and stop letting the government take charge for them. its time for dc to help those who are trying and not those who want a handout.
Hello Tori,
I’m confused by your comment. I used to live in Petworth, but the landlord kept raising the rent and my income didn’t go up with it. Consequently, I was displaced to Southeast, DC. If in fact your statement were true that “the only ones who are getting displaced is the ones who do not appreciate the fact that they are living for the price of nothing…” were true, then that would include me, right? But I’m not living for the price of nothing. I wasn’t living for the price of nothing when I lived in Petworth.
In fact, the building that I used to live in was sold and renovated. Many of my old neighbors are now East of the River along with me. Had the tenants of the building formed a tenant association before the building was sold then maybe we wouldn’t have been displaced. Attending an event like the Tenant Summit advertised in the post might have helped us to do that. It might help others who are in a similar situation. You are simply wrong if you think that displacement only happens to public housing residents.