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“The TX and AZ governors’ decision to bus asylum-seeking migrants to the District is causing a humanitarian crisis, and we are answering the call for help,” Racine said on Twitter. Racine’s office will offer a total of $150,000 in funding, with each organization eligible for as much as $50,000.
Bowser’s requests were roundly criticized by advocates, who said the mayor’s lack of direct action to help asylum seekers stands in stark contrast to her declaration that D.C. is a sanctuary city.
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“OAG recognizes the swift action of local organizations to assist those arriving to our city and the strain this is causing to their existing resources and potentially public safety,” the announcement of the new grant money acknowledges. The financial assistance from the Office of the Attorney General represents the first time the D.C. government has put forward money to help the local mutual aid efforts. (In Montgomery County, officials found a 50-bed space for organizers to use.)
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LTLAN does that in two ways, attorneys said: making sure people know about the opportunity for free legal assistance, and connecting them to aid quickly. If you are facing an eviction case or are worried you will in the future, you can call LTLAN on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. If you’re over 60, the case will be flagged for Legal
How DC’s eviction prevention hotline can help tenants
“Everyone who was waiting for the flood of eviction cases? It arrived,” said Lori Leibowitz, managing attorney for housing at Neighborhood Legal Services Program.
Operations began in June 2020, when six legal service organizations created the Landlord-Tenant Legal Assistance Network (LTLAN) to provide free representation to low-income D.C. residents. Unlike in criminal matters, people involved in a civil eviction case are not entitled by law to a free attorney. Nationwide, fewer than one-half of tenants are able to stay in their homes when they don’t have legal representation. Two years in, network attorneys have fielded over 3,000 calls from clients and helped almost all of them. Community outreach workers from another half-dozen organizations are knocking on the doors of every person with a scheduled eviction in D.C. to speak to them and leaving them fliers about theDespitehotline.LTLAN’s high success rate, its reach is not universal. The program, funded in part by the D.C. government, only provides legal help to tenants who earn up to 300% of the federal poverty level — about $40,000 for an individual or $83,000 for a family of four. Tenants who qualify for LTLAN sometimes reach out too late, or have balances so high that available rental assistance isn’t enough, said Gabriella LewisWhite, associate director of housing at the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center.Inother cases, people are reluctant to reach out, skeptical that a phone number could really help them, said Kim Lehmkuhl, a canvasser for LTLAN. Tenants facing eviction may have negative experiences working with city programs and nonprofits where their calls have gone unanswered. In such situations, “it’s hard to believe the flier means anything,” she said. And no phone number can fix what tenants say is the biggest source of their problems: the lack of affordable housing. Options in the District are especially scarce for people with extremely low incomes. But as more evictions are filed each month in D.C., the demand for legal representation is steadily increasing. LTLAN reports that it is receiving nearly twice as many calls as it did last year. In late July, the city surpassed 300 weekly eviction filings for the first time since 2020.
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f you’re facing eviction in D.C., there’s just one number you need to call for help: 202780-2575. It’s an eviction prevention hotline and the attorneys who staff it stopped 70% of evictions sought by landlords from September 2021 to March 2022.
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Across the nation, having access to a lawyer is a major determining factor in whether a tenant wins their eviction case. But for low-income residents who are already struggling to get by, hiring one is often out of the question. In 2017, 90% of landlords in D.C. came to court with a lawyer compared to just 10% of tenants.
“We’re trying to close that gap — we’re trying to make it a level playing field, a fairer fight,” said Sunny Desai, managing attorney of Legal Counsel for the Elderly’s Tenant Advocacy and Support Practice.
The Landlord-Tenant Court building, where eviction trials are usually held. Photo by Annemarie Cuccia.
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The LTLAN organizations. Chart by Annemarie Cuccia.
That’s what happened when a client recently contacted LTLAN close to 5 p.m. with an eviction scheduled the following day, according to Lewis-White. The Pro Bono Center was able to obtain an emergency hearing at 9 a.m. to delay the eviction, and the tenant ended up with time to pay off their rent with money from the District’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP).
Counsel for the Elderly. Otherwise, an attorney from one of the other five participating organizations — D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center, Neighborhood Legal Services Program, Bread for the City, Rising for Justice, and Legal Aid Society of D.C. — will reach out to you. If you’re eligible, you’ll at least get advice, Leibowitz said, with full representation available to those who need it.
Rental assistance — much of which is still available, despite the end of the federally funded STAY DC program — can be a game-changer. Lark, a mother of two who spoke on the condition that only her first name be used, said she continued paying her rent as long as she could after losing her job in 2020. But she eventually owed her landlord over $15,000. Faced with the threat of an eviction, Lark learned that the United Planning Organization was offering rental assistance. “I had myself worried all the time about what was going on, but finally the paperwork went through,” Lark said. “I had one small sigh of relief.”
ERAP and other social supports are an important piece of
Landlords in D.C. are required by law to give tenants a 30-day notice before they file an eviction case. If the tenant and landlord can come to a resolution during this time, no case is filed and the eviction stays off the tenant’s record. Agreements may include the establishment of a new rent payment plan or a commitment to address lease violations.
A single phone number for separate organizations — a rarity in the legal services industry — greatly reduces the burden on clients, who don’t have to call multiple lines or shop their case around. Attorneys, meanwhile, are able to prioritize cases in which eviction is imminent.
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LTLAN’s eviction prevention plan. While lawyers can delay evictions, they can only do so much to help people find additional sources of income, Leibowitz pointed out. That’s why LTLAN attorneys may refer you to programs that can help you find more money to pay rent. This can mean applying for benefits, preventing wage theft or getting favorable rates on loans. Six tenant empowerment specialists hired to guide clients through this process have personal experience with the D.C. social services system. “If our tenant empowerment specialists can work with folks to change something about their lives that makes them more able to be stable in their housing, that’s where the real change and the real eviction diversion and prevention happens,” Leibowitz said.
When tenants leave, it’s generally because they have abandoned the unit or agreed during the proceedings to move out, or the court rules in favor of the landlord. Even if the court initially rules in favor of the landlord, a tenant with legal representation may be able to continue to reside in their home. In September 2021, the expiration of the District’s moratorium on evictions during the public health emergency meant that the U.S. Marshals Service began evicting people with pre-pandemic judgments. With last-minute legal arguments and the broad availability of federally supported rental assistance, LTLAN stopped two-thirds of those evictions, said Beth Mellen, formerly the director of Legal Aid’s Eviction Defense Project. “We have never, ever come close to stopping that percent of evictions so late in the court process,” she said. “Just the power of saying to a tenant, at that point when they’ve just about given up, the government is ready to write a check to keep you in your home.”
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After 30 days a landlord can file to evict a tenant if they fail to reach an agreement. Then, the Landlord-Tenant Court schedules a virtual hearing within six weeks from the date of the filing. When the court allows tenants to stay, it is commonly through one of three resolutions: Both parties come to an agreement; the landlord requests dismissal because the tenant fixed the problem, or the court rules in favor of the tenant.
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Just knowing about LTLAN can provide some relief during the daunting process of eviction, Lehmkuhl said. As a volunteer canvasser, she reached out to people with pending eviction cases. But now she’s a client as well. Lehmkuhl’s landlord is trying to force her to move out, she said, threatening to change her locks without filing a formal eviction. Lehmkuhl is staying at home with her lease and a copy of the District’s Tenant Bill of Rights nearby, just in case
LTLAN is not the beginning or end of D.C.’s effort to expand legal aid services to low-income residents. D.C. took its first step toward guaranteeing the right to a lawyer for civil cases in 2004, creating the Landlord-Tenant Resource Center in Landlord-Tenant Court. Eligible tenants were able to obtain informal referrals from the Pro Bono Center to three providers with offices in the court building: Bread for the City, Rising for Justice, and the Legal Aid Society. In 2017, the city established a grant program to fund free legal services for low-income residents, distributing grants to those same groups.
The emergence of COVID-19 in March 2020 disrupted many services, including the Landlord-Tenant Resource Center. By coincidence, the four groups had planned to debut an in-person central point of intake on March 16, the same day the courthouse shut down. Organizers regrouped and instead launched LTLAN in its current form three months later, with Neighborhood Legal Services Program and Legal Counsel for the Elderly added to the roster of service providers. Now, LTLAN is poised to grow next year thanks to a $3 million boost in the District’s fiscal year 2023 budget, bringing the total D.C. funding for the program and participating organizations to at least $8 million.
“You don’t want this to happen to other folks. People really deserve stability and not walking on eggshells and feeling like they are drowning,” Lark said. “I’ve definitely felt like that.” This article was co-published with The DC Line.
A similar centralized intake service for all legal aid services in the District is slated to launch by 2024, according to Michanda Myles, the network project manager at the D.C. Bar Foundation. The service will likely operate much like LTLAN, but will include over 50 organizations that work on unemployment, public benefits, immigration and family cases.
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6 // STREET SENSE MEDIA // AUGUST 17 - 23, 2022 NEWS the police come. “That’s a really scary position to be in, and I was experiencing a lot of shame,” Lehmkuhl said. Even with her experience with the hotline and a background in law, she has felt overwhelmed researching her rights and figuring out where she’d go if the worst happens. Lehmkuhl doesn’t have any family in the area, and even if she could stay at a friend’s house, she doesn’t know where she’d put her belongings. She has worked in social services most of her career and said she has never made enough to have savings.
“It just opens up this whole horrifying horizon of all these things I’d have to contemplate,” Lehmkuhl said. Eviction can have a slew of destabilizing effects for families and individuals, Mellen said. After being forced to move, people often lose their job and suffer from depression and worsening health conditions. These effects can deepen already gaping racial and gender inequalities; 67% of LTLAN clients are women and 80% are Black. Being evicted also makes it harder to find housing, Desai pointed“Often,out.it’s seen that poverty is the cause of evictions, but it usually is the other way around — evictions lead to poverty,” he said.
In the meantime, Lark urged any tenants worried about their housing stability to reach out to the services available to help them avoid eviction.
Earlier this year, Human Rights Watch confirmed that the Taliban controlled payroll data of the government and the supreme court, and biometric systems of the police and army, and those who worked with foreign governments and aid agencies.
"Digital ID programmes with grave implications for human rights are still being implemented, or encouraged, even in high risk or crisis hit environments," he said. And in Afghanistan, Sadaf is still in hiding.
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The events in Afghanistan have underscored the risks of ID systems that are built without considering the possible impact on human rights, and without safeguards to prevent abuse, said Raman Jit Singh Chima at Access Now, a digital rights group.
"It really isn't possible to avoid detection." Life and death by data Advocates for biometric registration say it enables more accurate counts and identification of people in need, ensures more efficient aid delivery, and helps prevent fraud.
"I am in danger because of my job," said Sadaf. Digital danger Sadaf is among the tens of thousands of Afghans - including former government officials, judges, police and human rights activists - who remain in hiding one year on, fearful of being tracked with digital ID and data systems that the militants gained with regime change. In the past year, human rights groups and the United Nations have documented the killing or enforced disappearance of hundreds of former members of the security forces, as well as journalists, judges, activists and LGBT+ people.
"Everyone is vulnerable," said Aziz Rafiee, executive director of the non-profit Afghan Civil Society Forum, who gets hundreds of desperate messages every day from Afghans in Thehiding.systems were "a big mistake right from the beginning".
But critics say registers can be misused for profiling and surveillance, and many exclude the most vulnerable of people.
Over the past year, digital rights groups have called on aid agencies, foreign donors, and telecom and tech companies to rethink how they gather biometric data, and to secure their systems to prevent harm. But this has not happened, said Chima, a policy director.
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When her sister broke news of the takeover, Sadaf grabbed her bag and rushed from the office, pulling her headscarf low over her face and tucking her office ID into her shoe. Outside was chaos. Streets were jammed with vehicles and people running in every direction, desperate to flee. After walking part way home, Sadaf hitched a ride and made it to her house two hours later. She quickly hugged her three children, then shut herself in the bedroom, gathered all her identity papers and any documents related to work, and burnt the lot in the bathroom sink.
"Lack of employment and poverty on the one hand, and fear on the other hand, has made my life very difficult," Sadaf said.
A year on, Afghans hide out fearing death by data
A year after the Taliban takeover, tens of thousands of Afghans - including former government officials, judges, police and human rights activistsremain in hiding, fearful of being tracked with digital ID and data systems that the militants gained with regime change.
A Taliban spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.Likemany poor nations, Afghanistan pushed to digitise its data in recent years with funding and expertise from the World Bank, United States, European Union, the United Nations' refugee agency (UNHCR), World Food Programme and others.
S adaf was at work last year at a government office in suburban Kabul when her sister rang with news that the Taliban had entered the Afghan capital, and begged her to race home."Cover your face! And don't tell anyone where you work," her sister said, her voice shaking with fear. Sadaf didn't know it then but this was the start of exile within her own country, a life of lying low to avoid death by data. Like thousands of Afghans, she has spent the past year hiding out in a series of safe houses, hoping to evade her digital trail and prevent the Taliban tracking her family.
One such programme is the digital ID system known as e-Tazkira, which holds a wealth of personal and biometric data including a person's name, ID number, place and date of birth, gender, marital status, religion, ethnicity, language, profession, iris scans, fingerprints, and a photograph.
"So people are not able to leave the houses they are hiding in. In addition, anyone who goes to the passport office to get their passports to try and leave the country - their identity would be very clear to anyone," she said.
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"I didn't want anything to fall into the hands of the Taliban," she said by text message from an undisclosed location in Afghanistan.Aweekafter the Taliban took over, men knocked on Sadaf's door and spent hours searching her home. They knew where she worked, and left with a warning that they were watching. The next day, Sadaf packed her belongings and fled, along with her children and husband, a carpenter. They have been in hiding ever since, lodging with relatives and friends, and never staying anywhere for more than two weeks.
"In a country like Afghanistan, there is always the possibility that the information would end up in the hands of terrorists, and you could be killed," said Rafiee, who did not apply for an e-Tazkira, fearing this very outcome.
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The ID is needed to access services, jobs and to vote. But it also exposes vulnerable ethnic groups, and people who worked in government or with foreign agencies, rights groups say.
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"I was very scared," said Sadaf. The 48-year-old, who asked that her last name not be used, knew only too well the danger she faced. The Taliban had previously bombed their vehicles; Sadaf was injured in two of those attacks and had lost several colleagues.
"For those in hiding, there is no way to avoid detection because the Taliban is carrying out identity checks - with photos, fingerprints, iris scans - at checkpoints," said Belkis Willie, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch.
By several measures, the expansion succeeded: in conjunction with other shifts in child nutrition policy, the program helped reduce national food shortage rates in households with children by 40% between January and April 2021, according to data from Virginia Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA), who chairs the House Committee on Education and Labor.
MARGARET BARTHEL DCist F amilies throughout the D.C. region whose children qualify for the federal free and reduced price meals program will once again have to apply to receive the benefit, with federal pandemic support for free meals for every student in school elapsing this fall.
The end of universal free meals comes as families’ purchasing power has been cut by burgeoning inflation. For example, a family of four living off of $52,000 per year, or $1,000 per week — an extremely difficult feat in the high-cost D.C. region — will lose the school meal benefit they’ve been used to. But their $1,000 this June had the same buying power as $916 did a year ago, according to a federal inflation calculator.
There are also concerns that stigmas around families not being able to pay for school meals may reassert itself, after two years of all kids eating free, no matter their income. A Montgomery County Public Schools FAQ on the school meals program attempted to address that issue, reassuring parents that schools will use student ID numbers in school lunch lines to maintain confidentiality.
In some cases, local and state officials have been able to draw on existing COVID relief money to help cushion families from the worst effects — Alexandria is using some pandemic funds to get rid of all outstanding pre-pandemic meal debt on student accounts, per Mimberg — or use state or local support to begin to close the gap.
In Virginia, the latest state budget includes $8.2 million in funding to make school breakfasts and lunches free for students who only qualify for the reduced-price option under the federal criteria — about 64,500 kids, according to No Kid Hungry Virginia. The state also passed a law in the spring to prevent schools from punishing students or withholding food or opportunities because of outstanding meal debt.
Federally, Congressman Scott is pushing the Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids Act, which would expand the criteria for “community eligibility provision” status — meaning more schools could serve free meals to their entire student bodies — and increase the amount of federal reimbursement sent to local schools serving free and reduced price meals.
There are a few cases in which families may not be required to submit an application in order for their children to receive free meals. Children in households receiving other federal poverty support, like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, otherwise known as food stamps), Medicaid, or Temporary Cash Assistance, should qualify automatically.
The free meals application form generally asks families to list the members of their household and the income they each bring in, as well as other information about federal benefits.
So do foster children, students certified as unhoused, students in the federal Head Start program, or migrant students. Some schools with a high proportion of meals-eligible students qualify for a “community eligibility provision” (CEP), which means that all students there eat for free, with no application required. D.C. Public Schools, for instance, has 89 schools this year with CEP status; Fairfax County Public Schools has 34. Families with students enrolled in those schools do not need to submit an application to receive the free meal benefit.
“By using this system, there is no way for any student to know if a classmate’s lunch account is being charged or if the student is receiving a free meal,” the FAQ explains.
With students back in hybrid classroom arrangements, the number decreased, but was still above the pre-pandemic norm, with 4,750 breakfasts served per day and 9,300 lunches.
NEWS Families must apply for free school meals again this year
Congress has not renewed funding for the pandemic expansion of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s school meals program, the nation’s first-ever attempt at making free food available to all students. The expansion made it possible for schools to provide free meals to any student, a move intended to combat rising food insecurity in the first two years of the pandemic. It also allowed schools added flexibility in offering meals for pick-up (instead of requiring students to eat on school premises) and providing meals on the weekends.
I think my child qualifies. Where do I apply? School systems in the D.C. region have made applications available online, or on paper in school offices. Many have phone numbers for parents with questions to call. This article was originally published by DCist.
Who is still eligible for free meals, and what’s involved in the application?
“During the peak of our meal distribution program during the pandemic, with the USDA waiver, we were averaging 25,000 total meals/day,” said Cynthia Hormel, the Alexandria school nutrition director, in an email to WAMU/DCist. “That included breakfast, lunch, snack, and supper for children between the ages of two and 18 who are City of Alexandria residents.”
Experts worry that the return to requiring families to apply for meals benefits this school year will result in lapses in meal coverage for families who may not know they need to submit an application, may be hesitant to submit the information to the schools or who get their application in late.
What’s being done to try to mitigate the impact of this shift on families?
In Maryland, an effort to shore up support for community eligibility provisions and to require the state to pay for universal school meals this school year didn’t make it across the legislative finish line. The state does offer supplemental support for schools providing free breakfasts.
Most D.C. Public Schools students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Photo by Tyrone Turner/WAMU/DCist
Income requirements for student eligibility are set by the federal government yearly, at 130% of the federal poverty level for free meals and 185% of the federal poverty level for reduced-price meals — $36,075.01 and $51,338 per year for a family of four, respectively. Some experts believe that the federal poverty measure is seriously out-of-date and doesn’t reflect lived realities of economic hardship.
Local and state school officials are scrambling to make families aware of the shift and get applications filed before school begins in a few weeks. Who will this affect most?
But now, even as inflation pushes food prices ever higher, the money that made all that possible is expiring. That means families across the country — and here in the D.C. region — will once again have to submit an application to prove that they’re eligible for free or reduced-price breakfasts and lunches — or begin to pay.
The scale of local school meal programs is staggering: in Virginia, for instance, the Department of Education estimates that the commonwealth’s public schools served more than 172 million school meals in the last school year, 2 million more than in the 2018-2019 school year. In Montgomery County, Md., the region’s second-largest school district, nearly 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals, according to Maryland state data. That same figure is roughly 20% in Fairfax County Public Schools, the largest school system in the region. In D.C., it’s close to 60%.
Pre-pandemic, nearly 3 million households with kids did not have consistent sources of healthy food, and rates of food insecurity were significantly higher for Black and Hispanic families.TheUSDA waiver expanded the ability of schools in the D.C. region to try to close those gaps. In Alexandria, for example, schools typically served 4,500 breakfasts and about 8,000 lunch meals each day. That number ballooned at the height of pandemic need.
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The new landlord might find it cheaper in the long run to tear down the complex and rebuild from scratch. As one tenant of 25 years, Juan, told me: With a rebuild, “they will cater to people at the University of Maryland, not us.”
For some tenants, this suggests that they aren’t part of the new landlords’ long-term plans. What had been a relative safe space for Latinos, where they can speak Spanish, shop in Latin grocery stores and eat at restaurants that serve familiar food, will turn into a place where they no longer feel at home.
Carolyn Gallaher is a geographer and associate professor at American University.
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Prince George’s County says it has used ROFR to protect over 1,213 affordable units just since the program was overhauled in 2020. But the statute has to grapple with sometimes competing interests. On one hand, it needs to bring investment into severely disinvested places. On the other, it needs to protect the tenants whose homes may be beyond repair.
At Bedford and Victoria Stations, this means protecting affordability won’t be enough. The county also needs to protect the complex’s existing tenants. The prior landlords were able to get away with severe disinvestment because these tenants were easy to exploit and because the county failed to enforce repeated housing code violations on the property.
A spokesperson for Jair Lynch declined to say whether they were considering tear downs on the property. I asked the same question of the county’s DHCD, which runs the ROFR program. "The ROFR program assumes the preservation of existing structures,” Department’s director, Aspasia Xypolia, told me via email. She also explained that ROFR uses covenants, or legal restrictions placed on property deeds, to guarantee affordability. “Tearing down buildings that alters the number of the committed affordable housing units will result in violation of the land covenants.”
Indeed, this is tenants’ primary worry. “The only way to fix the building is to tear them down, they’re in such bad shape,” Juan said. If Jair Lynch and Naveen tear down even some units, tenants will have to scramble to find new places to live — no mean feat given the county’s limited supply of affordable housing. Tenants also worry that if there were a teardown, they would have no right to return once a new building was put up. Juan said he thinks once new buildings go up, the rents will too. “Most of us couldn’t afford them, and they will have higher requirements for applications — credit history, legal documents a lot of us don’t have.”
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The new ROFR program is a major improvement.
Unfortunately, the county’s assurances won’t allay many tenants’ fears. Words like “assume” lack legal heft. It seems that a tear down only violates ROFR rules if demolition would put the number of affordable units below the promised level of 75% of those that currently exist. That means Jair Lynch/ Naveen could tear down about a quarter of its buildings and still meet its obligations under the affordability covenant. That’s bad news for the tenants who may be forced to leave, and it isn’t a good sign for those remaining. Many worry that Jair Lynch and Nuveen will do what the former landlords did: Milk the property while making bare bones repairs until they can take advantage of the Purple Line and new residents. As Juan explained: “They didn’t buy these buildings to help us. They’re investing for the future.”
Then, they plan to install new windows, smart thermostats, LED lighting and enhanced security systems in each building. They also replaced the management company, which pleased residents.Yettenants are still worried about their future at the complex, for two reasons. The first is the Purple Line, which is slated to start operation in fall 2026. Bedford and Victoria Stations lie between two proposed Purple Line stations — Takoma Langley and Riggs Road, potentially making the area attractive to higher-income renters. It’s a reasonable concern. Jair Lynch and Nuveen have been consolidating property in the area for several years. In 2020, they bought an adjacent complex called the Villas at Langley and now own nearly 50 acres of contiguous property in the neighborhood.
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his May, Prince George’s County used its Right of First Refusal (ROFR) program to protect affordable housing at Bedford and Victoria Stations, a troubled housing complex in Langley Park. In the short term, this will help the property’s tenants who have lived through a decade of their landlord’s disinvestment and malfeasance. But tenants worry about their long-term future on the property. The ROFR statute, passed in 2013, is designed to protect affordable housing by giving the county the right to refuse sales of multi-family housing serving low- and moderate-income families. If the county decides to refuse a sale, it transfers the right of purchase to an approved developer who promises to keep 75% of units affordable for 15 years. In most ROFR cases, developers are required to set rents that are affordable for people making 80% of the area median income. Under the county’s definition, this means total housing costs, including utilities, should not exceed 30% of a household’s gross income. The county sweetens the deal by offering approved developers various forms of assistance, from low-interest loans to tax abatements. Prince George’s County median income is $86,994. The program was rarely used until the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) overhauled it this past June. When Bedford and Victoria Stations went under contract earlier this winter, the county refused the sale and granted the purchase rights to Jair Lynch and Nuveen Real Estate. They completed the purchase in May and paid $100 million, according to DHCD. Under the ROFR program, 440 of the complex’s 587 units must be affordable to households making less than $69,595 per year. Langley Park is an ideal place for the county to use ROFR. In 2020, the neighborhood’s median income — $63,789 — was $23,000 less than the county’s. More than four out of five of the area’s residents are Latino, and 61.6% of residents are foreign born, many of whom are undocumented. Finally, the overwhelming majority of residents rent — 75% in 2020. Bedford and Victoria Stations were also in desperate need of a new landlord. It’s not a stretch to say the complex’s prior landlords — two LLCs operated by one of the largest real estate investment trusts in the country — were slumlords. In 2021 the tenants association sued them for deliberate neglect of the property, alleging that their negligence created dangerous, unsanitary living conditions for tenants. During prior visits to the property, I’ve seen multiple code violations in residents’ apartments. Tenants showed me active water leaks, holes in their ceilings, broken appliances, mold, rodent infestations and piles of garbage at the community’s dumpsters. Many tenants told me the AC was out in the summer and heat was sporadic in winter. In one apartment, a tenant told me the landlord’s repairman ‘fixed’ the smoke alarm in his hallway ceiling by putting a replacement on his kitchen table, without the part to attach it to the ceiling. Tenants also told me it was hard to get in touch with the property manager to request repairs, and they only made superficial repairs when they did respond, like patching a ceiling instead of fixing the leak that caused it. When I asked Jair Lynch what they were going to do for tenants, their spokesperson provided a list of planned repairs. Their first priority is to upgrade the complex’s electrical system.
Secondly, tenants who’ve been at the property for years know it is in bad shape. The complex’s 35 buildings are over 70 years old. The typical problems aging buildings face — decaying joists, cracking foundations, old pipes, low electrical voltage — have been compounded by a decade of neglect.
At the very least, the county must prevent displacement in the 25% of ROFR buildings not covered by affordability requirements. It should also rigorously track ROFR developers’ compliance with the law over time. My experience covering right of first refusal laws in D.C. suggests that landlords and developers are happy to break the rules if they can get away with it. Finally, it should consider ways to keep affordability requirements in place beyond 15 years. Bedford and Victoria Stations’ tenants experienced the disinvestment of their homes and neighborhood firsthand. Now they should have a chance to experience some reinvestment.
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Mentorism, advanced FREDERIC JOHN Artist/Vendor ountless communities frown on one of their boys and girls “running away to the circus.” (Especially during the twentieth century, when taking up an established profession was an accepted norm: doctor, teacher, priest, post carrier, etc.)
To know me, to be oneself, to be. Some see it as a path, I see it differently, I see it as being Kymy. When I wake up in the morning, or when I go to sleep, I can feel God's glory. Her words fill me every day. My soul could burst, so when I speak, it is from the heart. Kymy, the muse, the messenger of God. God loves me always; God is Kymy.
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To know better Is to do better, To do better Is to know better, To be better Is to give better, To give better Is to receive better, To receive better Is to achieve better, To achieve better Is to believe you are better. That’s why to know better is to do better, And to perceive yourself doing better.
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Although my clan on both my mother and father’s sides were a bit more diverse in their choice of career paths, there was no doubt at least one aunt, two siblings and definitely my cousin from New Zealand squawked out various moments of “Really now… What did he do that for?” Surely, my matronly cousin Meg, in particular, would never imagine the sweat, tears, if not blood, I shed, sitting on a hot and cracked foam cushion in an ancient “Metrovan,” sitting under spreading elms of the Capitol Mall. ‘Twas a sultry afternoon, just prior to the Fourth of July in 1975. “Boy, that’s s’posed to be a damn ninth chord! G ninth, boy! You got stupid fingers, show me again- Mo’ better, if you love this music like you say you do.” The sound came from the pursed lips of Robert Lockwood, Robert Junior to those who knew him well. This steamy chunk of a syrupy summer found him on the festival circuit with a grizzled grey-eyed hippie, Dave Griggs, who hailed from Robert’s adopted hometown of Cleveland. Lockwood’s eyes were predominantly in a distant gaze, for he constantly harked back to Mississippi red-dirt crossroads, where Robert “ran” with his step-father, who was young enough to be an older brother: Robert Johnson. Johnson was the blues legend who died at 27 in 1998 and left a lifelong impression upon Lockwood, as well as contemporaries Johnny Sh and Houston Stackhouse, fellow Delta balladeers and guitarists. So, here I am, at best a would-be bluesman and guitar slinger, rapt at the feet of Mr. Lockwood Junior, who, despite his flawless pedigree, was cranky due to humid D.C. slough and stale sandwiches and little or no ice, courtesy of overtaxed Smithsonian Folklife volunteers. The latter included moi, for I had abdicated my duties as a part-time guide for the guest artists. Lockwood perceived my obsessive nature and waved me into the magical, skylit interior of the faded lilac colored van, decorated with crude, freaky-style, forget-me-nots that garlanded the block lettered message, “DAVE GRIGGS BLUES BAND.”
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Take one minute to read this devotion.Startyour day right. Live with intention, one day at a time.Living in the moment opens up our world, our possibilities. We’re able to see signs from God; doors open, and people are sent our way. When our minds are still on last night’s argument or tomorrow’s stresses, we have little left to give to whatever God has for us today. There is something meant for us in this experience, in the people present now. Growth, lessons, comfort, love. He’s got it all for us, exactly what we need; we just have to be present and available to listen, willing to go with it. And, how do we make ourselves available to the now? By letting go of yesterday and leaving tomorrow for tomorrow. Freeing! Our lives will be eased so much when we keep the focus on the experience at hand. The answers will come. Whatever will happen will happen. Trust and believe. Spread love.
Today, I can truly say I am Asblessed.formy days past, I must confess, I have felt much less. For when the sun rises, It rises on the just, as well as the unjust, And when it sets, It sets on everybody and everything, For there are good days and there are bad days, And there is no room for complaining, Because it serves no purpose And solves no problems. There are wars and rumors of wars, Gang violence, crime, murder Ring out all over the land Even terrorism Has gotten a little out of hand, Disease stricken countries And mouths unfed, People walking the streets And children don’t have a place To call home, And the elderly are weary And can’t rest their feet. How can this be? In a world full of the blessed, Because they have turned their backs And cared much less. We must stop and think And act on this quest, And ask “god” to help us, Undo all this mess. We walk in darkness
name brands: Adidas sweatsuits, Nike sweatsuits, nice dress slacks, dress shoes, Gucci and Prada. Even when I had to wear a uniform for work, I still looked good. Today, I still wear the best clothes I can buy. I also wear the best jewelry I can get from designer stores. I will keep buying clothes and jewelry until I can’t buy them anymore. Even when I get older, I will still strive to be the best dresser I can be. If you wear something nice, it can make you feel good about yourself.
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he clothes I wear can tell you a lot about my childhood. I started caring about clothes when I was about 10 years old. In those days, we went to JC Penny. I had to be the only one in my class to wear designer jeans. I thought I was the best-dressed person in school because of my name-brand jeans. Then, I started to look good all the time, and when I got to a certain age, I was proud of myself for being the best dressed kid in my school. I took pride in the way I looked.
Idon’t want to complain about life, but it would be twice as nice to riseand be alive without pandemics, mask wars past, unconventional love, neverending hugs from home and abroad will start a new lifestyle.
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All the girls in school used to like me. I was so happy in elementary school. Then, when I got to junior high, I started to wear name-brand shoes. I had shoes from Nike, Adidas, Polo and Timberland. I had other good items, too. I was so happy in my junior year. But sometimes I had to fight in school because some people didn’t like the way I dressed. They used to follow me home from school to fight me. I didn’t understand why people didn’t like the way I dressed. When I started working good jobs, I bought all kinds of
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I'm pretty convinced that all of my successes have come solo. My senses have been too heightened to succeed around others cause they’re not me, so they are distracting to what I'm trying to focus on. I never wanted to be the person who had to do it all, like that time when I worked my volunteer position at the studio and was asked to study and learn all of the music equipment on my own. I'd say my documentary was an exception because we basically had roles: a cameraman and a featured artist or topic. But, as you see, it still did not last long. It didn't translate into more or bigger and better, but it's still appreciated all the same, no less! I just do me!
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My father got up to clean each and every day, and I did not clean up or take out the trash. Instead, I played each and every day. But, as I became older, I began to work harder. I knew he forgave me; this man was my father.
Waking up each morning clothed in my right mind is a good Commandingday,my day by speaking positive affirmations of positivity, such as good health, wealth and a good relationship with my kids. I don’t want to associate today with cynical, toxic, negative people — who see their glass as half empty. All I want is for my three grandkids to be emotionally, mentally, socially, financially, legally, biologically and psychologically stable adults. I see my cup as half filled each day and make a conscious decision to find beauty around me, usually God draws to my attention a small child, a flower or a picture in a storefront.Idesire to live a life where I make a positive impact and leave the earth with seeds of positivity.
Summer is a happiness,bringsthing.beautifulSummerjoyand laughter and lots of smiles. Summertime brings fresh air in the morning and gets hotter as the day goes on. We had some crisp morning breezes, the birds sang so joyfully; they are so full of joy and happiness. They chirp and sing beautiful songs, they lift up our spirits. Summer brings beautiful flowers and roses, beautiful plants and greener grass, beautiful green trees, more insects. Bees, worms, butterflies, grasshoppers, lightning bugs. Summer brings more ice cream trucks, cold watermelon, and cold drinks, more swimming pools, cooling centers, water holes, more air conditioners. We have a lot more rain to cool things off. Stay cool.
Housed CHRIS COLE Artist/Vendor am happy to report that I recently became housed. After two years Ihomelessness,ofalmostcan’t believe I have a door to close and a key to turn. I am immensely blessed and excited for what’s to come.Ihave to admit, though, my first few weeks of being housed were not what I expected. I had a lot of anxiety about suddenly being indoors so much. I was even scared to be alone! After living in a tent community with several people just feet away, I felt so disconnected. Every little noise in the apartment scared me. It’s taken some time to get used to, and I had a hard time sleeping without the constant city noises in theI’vebackground.realized that you have to have balance. You can’t stay inside for days at a time like a hermit. So, I try to get out and continue to sell my papers. I recently got involved with a housing advocacy group called People for Fairness Coalition (PFFC). I hope to be able to make a meaningful impact there and continue to improve my writing skills here at Street Sense.
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