Will McKinley III is a videographer/editor based out of Washington, D.C. He attended Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD with a concentration in TV Production. Below is a link to the first segment that he and his peeps put together for a new current affairs magazine television show about Washington, DC, called Metropolis: The District. Don’t be thrown by the message that says you can’t view the video here. Click on the box and it will take you straight to Vimeo.
http://vimeo.com/83507664The video features the famous Goodman League and the current redevelopment plans for the neighborhood of Barry Farm. Learn who is responsible for the Goodman League’s rise to prominence. Affordable housing organizer Schyla Pondexter-Moore explains why traditional public housing is important to the fabric of Washington,DC. This is the kind of in-depth journalism that I’d love to see on DC’s local television stations. Too often the only reason television news producers head out to Barry Farms is for crime. Here’s hoping McKinley and his crew get funding for more of this excellent work!
How can Barry Farms residents as well as any other Public Housing Resident fight to keep housing when they do not own it from the beginning. DC PLEASE GET RID OF PUBLIC HOUSING FAST
DC can get rid of public housing but can they get rid of all the public housing residents who are then turned out into the street? I’m pretty sure there are still well over a hundred families living in DC General. Not really room for any more. The city has been putting families up in DC hotels, they’ve had to start shipping them out to hotels in Maryland because DC’s cheap hotels are full. Check out this link.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/winter-homelessness-among-dc-families-called-catastrophic/2014/02/03/de58a346-8d21-11e3-833c-33098f9e5267_story.html
Only people who want to keep public housing up are the trifling people who want to continue to live off of the city/government. Public housing and Mrs. Pondexter-Moore did not care when violence occurred in their public housing neighborhoods but they want to fight to keep the Projects up. This lady need to sit down and shut up. She is fighting to keep Public Housing Projects up, but her kids attend schools in capital hill area.