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Bowser said the increase is meant to help more Black families purchase homes in D.C. Just over one-third of Black families in D.C. own their homes, compared to half of white families, according to the mayor’s office. In 2016, the Urban Institute found that while an average white household looking for their first home could afford 67% of available units, whilean average Black household could afford just 9%.
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“With this program I was able to make a long-time dream become a reality,” said Marcus Branch, a D.C. resident who had been trying to buy a house for years before hearing about HPAP. Families qualify for an HPAP loan based on their income and household size, with some form of assistance to individuals who make up to $109,600 and families of four who make up to $156,550. Individuals who make below $49,800 annually and families of four who make below $71,150 are eligible for the full loan. HPAP also offers an additional $4,000 to cover closing costs. Total closing costs range from 3-5% of the home’s sale price. Individuals who make below $79,600 or families of four making less than $113, 850 have no payments until they sell, refinance or move out of their homes. At that point, the whole loan repayment is due. All other program participants begin making monthly payments on the loan after five years. About 300 households receive a HPAP loan every year, according to the D.C. Department of Housing and Community Development, which runs the program. In 2021, the average price of the homes participants purchased was $350,000, said John Falcicchio, the deputy mayor for planning and economic development. To apply, contact a community organization or go to frontdoor.dc.gov. All applicants must have a good credit rating, and DHCD prioritizes applicants who are very low-income, elderly, disabled and displaced.
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There are historic and structural reasons behind this inequity. In the mid-1900s, Black homeowners received just 2% of mortgages backed by the Federal Housing Administration. Today, banks deny Black home loan applicants at higher rates than white applicants with similar qualifications, according to an analysis by Reveal News. Marian Siegal, the executive director of Housing Counseling Services, one of the organizations that administers HPAP, is glad to see the increase. But she cautioned that unless D.C. changes its policy to reserve HPAP funds for the lowest-income residents, some of the money may be used by families who can already afford a home to get a larger or higher-quality property. Still, a rapid increase in demand following Bowser’s announcement is encouraging.
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The Village of Friendship Heights has more relaxed height restrictions than DC with many buildings rising to 200 feet, but Jane Lyons, Maryland Advocacy Manager at Coalition for Smarter Growth says that opposition to new housing there is fierce, longstanding, and organized. Norman Knopf founded the Citizens Coordinating Committee on Friendship Heights in 1971 to oppose development. The Village Council recently hired Knopf to sue the The Montgomery County Planning Board for approving a 380-unit project at 5500 Wisconsin Ave. The case is set for a hearing on August 24 at the Montgomery County Circuit Court in Rockville (Village Mayor Melanie White declined to comment for this piece).
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Lyons is hopeful for the future. “There’s lots of energy in Ward 3 and around housing through things like Ward3Vision and the Chevy Chase Small Area Plan. Montgomery County is also embracing urbanism,” she said. “There’s such an incredible opportunity here that shouldn’t be squandered.”
When Tishman Speyer, a New York developer, presented their Mazza Gallerie redevelopment plans at a July ANC3E meeting, commissioners wondered if the development could be taller than seven stories to accommodate more affordable housing than the 40 inclusionary zoning (IZ) units planned. The D.C. side of Friendship Heights currently has just 540 residents—10 times less than the Maryland side (known as “The Village of Friendship Heights”).
A new advocacy group, Ward 3 Housing Justice (an outgrowth of DC Grassroots Planning Coalition and of Empower DC), has criticized the D.C. Comprehensive Plan as not doing enough for affordable housing, and wants the city to prioritize community land trusts and social housing, including around the WMATA site.
4 // STREET SENSE MEDIA // AUGUST 24-30, 2022 NEWS Nearly 1,400 multifamily units planned for Friendship Heights ERICA FLOCK Greater Greater Washington I n 1977, when the newly opened Mazza Gallerie Mall in Friendship Heights failed to find tenants, it was an omen of things to come. The neighborhood would struggle with more vacancies in the late 2000s, mirroring other communities across the U.S. that were overbuilt with retail. COVID19 has finished off much of what’s left, including Chevy Chase Plaza, Nordstrom Rack, Lord & Tayor, and the Fox 5 headquarters. Local officials and residents are now wrestling with what’s next. A flurry of reports — the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Reimagining Friendship Heights, DC’s Rock Creek West Roadmap, and Thrive Montgomery 2050 — are all pointing to the same conclusion: the transit-rich neighborhood needs less retail space and more housing. Such a change would benefit affordability, liveability, and the environment. Although no housing has been built in Friendship Heights in 15 years, developers are lining up. The neighborhood is poised for a spate of new multifamily projects, including those at 5500 Wisconsin (380 units), Friendship Center (350 units), Mazza Gallerie (325 units), Fox 5 (214 units), and Lisner Home (about 130 units).
ANC3E Chair Jonathan Bender says that under D.C. zoning laws, developers can either deploy downscaled new projects quickly by-right (currently capped at 65 feet in Friendship Heights), or pitch a taller development and chance a comparatively lengthy Planned Unit Development (PUD) approval process with no guarantee of success. Bender typically encourages developers to pursue PUDs (height allowances aren’t the only thing PUDs can be used for). Since 2016, a planned mixed-use development in nearby Spring Valley which sought a PUD has been so tangled up in local opposition from nearby homeowners, that the developer sold the property in late 2021. The former grocery store and parking lot occupying the site have been vacant for years.
According to OP’s associate director of neighborhood planning Melissa Bird, they intend to have a draft study ready in early 2023, with zoning changes to follow 8-12 months later. Residents can provide feedback through a survey here and public meetings starting in the fall.
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WMATA intends to redevelop its nearly 4-acre Western Bus Garage which could potentially incorporate new housing. “We think it’s possible to add housing everywhere. It becomes a design and operations question and whether those partnerships are there to make it happen,” says OP Senior Neighborhood Planner Erkin Ozberk. Another WMATA bus garage redevelopment on 14th St. NW in Petworth will include retail. Community members there successfully pressured WMATA to transition the garage to allelectric buses to address pollution.
“For the council, it’s not about winning so much, it’s about delaying the project,” said Village resident Daniel Dozier who wrote an op-ed supporting the development in Bethesda Beat and is a correspondent on the case. He emphasized that Friendship Heights has a long history of racial segregation and that opposition to new housing today often has the effect, if not always the intent, of deepening racial inequality.
In the case of Mazza Gallerie, Bender would like to see more units and says the ANC would likely support it, but also sees significant value to the community in getting the vacant mall redeveloped as soon as possible under existing zoning laws.
Early racist FHA lending practices and displacement of Black communities created the predominantly white, wealthy region that Ward 3 and neighboring Montgomery County is today. With this racist history, does the neighborhood even merit the moniker “Friendship”? Writing in the Washington Post, members of the Washington Interfaith Network, a multifaith nonprofit advocating for affordable housing, argue that it could if things change:
D.C.’s 2021 Comprehensive Plan update allows for additional height and density in Friendship Heights through its Future Land Use Map. The DC Office of Planning (OP)’s Wisconsin Avenue Development Framework plan will, among other things, provide guidance on how that height and density can be achieved, including through possible zoning changes.
5500 Wisconsin would provide the Village’s first designated affordable units — 15% or over 50 units — under Montgomery County’s Moderately Priced Dwelling Unit Program. Across the border, DC’s Rock Creek West Roadmap pointed out that the study area has the smallest number of affordable units in the city — only 470 out of 51,960, although that’s slowly improving.
Making Friendship Heights mixedincome and affordable Private development with dedicated IZ is usually the easiest way to add affordable housing, but it isn’t the only way — governments can also use tax abatements, municipal housing bonds, subsidies, home purchase assistance, and more. D.C.’s Housing Production Trust Fund is creating 93 affordable units in Friendship Heights for seniors at the Lisner-Louise-DicksonHurt Home.
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Other PUDs, such as those for the Dancing Crab and Broadcast redevelopments in Tenleytown, have gone forward without significant legal challenges.
Housing opponents have successfully deployed zoning fights to squash many planned multifamily and affordable projects in Montgomery County as well.
“The moral fiber of any community is not necessarily determined by what its members believe in private (though that’s important), but by who and what its policies promote in public. Where there is a wrong, we are obligated to fix it. Where there is an opportunity to do right, we want to seize it.”
The Mazza Gallerie shopping mall, pictured in August of 2022, was sold in a foreclosure auction in 2020 and is slated for redevelopment.
“Too often, D.C. residents are forced to live in dangerous environments within their own homes because landlords and property managers violate the law and fail to provide their tenants with safe and secure housing,” Attorney General Karl A. Racine said. Restitution for tenants in similar cases
That same month, the OAG also filed three other repair and public safety lawsuits against property owners at Somerset
The OAG resolved major cases at three other D.C. properties in late June 2022, after landlords failed to provide safe and secure conditions for their tenants. As a result of these lawsuits, property owners were required to make various changes around their properties to improve safety and living conditions, resolutions that tenants at Marbury Plaza still await.
While she is frustrated with the state of the building, Gladden
For Marbury Plaza, tenants have not yet been given a timeline for the resolution of their case, as it has been awaiting a ruling from the courts for almost a year. The OAG is hoping to provide restitution for the Marbury Plaza tenants, while also working to ensure that the property owners will no longer endanger their tenants with unsafe living conditions.
said she is glad the OAG is going after the lawsuit. The OAG has been pursuing a number of lawsuits against property owners and landlords, including Marbury Plaza.
“This building has been going downhill, nothing is up to par. To me, they’re not doing what they’re supposed to be doing for any resident…I don’t know what to do. I want to move but
In some units, tenants were subjected to “mold and filthy air vents which spew dust,” according to the report. Tenants relied on space heaters and electric fans as the building often had insufficient heating and cooling. Street Sense Media reached out to the property owners by phone and email twice for comment, however, they did not provide a response.
“Today’s resolutions and lawsuits reinforce that no matter what type of property you own — a shopping center, gas station, or residential building — you must prioritize the health and safety of D.C. residents,” Racine said in a press release.
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‘Nothing is up to par’: Tenants at Marbury Plaza live in unsafe conditions amid lawsuit
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arbury Plaza, a Southeast D.C. apartment complex, was a major attraction for middleclass Black families looking for a place to call home in the 1960s. However, as the years progressed, the once-luxurious apartments deteriorated due to poor management, according to tenants at the property. Last summer, D.C.’s Office of the Attorney General (OAG) sued the current property owners for numerous health and safety violations.
where would I move to?” the 72 year old said. The lawsuit claims both the property owners and management company of Marbury Plaza repeatedly violated the Consumer Protection Procedures Act, which protects consumers from unlawful trade practices. In the filing, the OAG pointed to an alleged 148 housing violations which included repeated gas leaks, pest infestations, defective stair lifts for tenants with disabilities and broken door locks on units. At the time the lawsuit was initially filed, the property suffered from many structural issues, according to the OAG.
While orders for restitutions, updated safety plans and inspections have been made for the other lawsuits, residents at Marbury Plaza await a resolution. Shortly after the Marbury Plaza lawsuit was filed, the OAG filed a motion for an emergency order to repair the property. However, tenants at Marbury Plaza report the continuous decline of the property despite intervention from the OAG.
Last summer, D.C.’s Office of the Attorney General sued the current property owners of Marbury Plaza for numerous health and safety violations.
Francine Gladden, a Marbury Plaza tenant for 22 years, believes little has changed around the apartment.
Gladden supported OAG claims from the lawsuit regarding the state of the property. Within the last year, she said she has been exposed to asbestos in her unit, multiple water leaks from the toilet and a broken stair lift, which she relies on due to her disability.
“My thing with Marbury Plaza is that they never actually fix anything,” she said. “They just patch up everything. I had a gas leak behind my stove and they wouldn’t replace that stove until I called the gas company several times about it because I kept smelling gas.”
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Apartments, Sheridan Apartments, a gas station and a vacant apartment in D.C. Residents at these properties, including Marbury and the surrounding communities, suffered health hazards, violence, break-ins and other unsafe living conditions.
D.C. Health plans to attend shelter town hall meetings as well as train COVID-19 peer educators on monkeypox prevention according to a presentation shared by the Department of Health Services at a D.C. Interagency Council on Homelessness meeting on Aug. 9.
Bob Wittig had been waiting in line for nearly an hour to receive a monkeypox vaccine at a D.C. Health clinic. When Wittig had arrived, he said only five people had been in line with him. By noon, it grew to about 50 people, all of whom were determined to get a vaccine.
As of Aug. 23, there are about 350 cases of monkeypox in D.C. The District the city with the highest number of cases per capita in the United States. On Aug. 4, the White House officially declared monkeypox a public health emergency. This decree will open up more funding for resources such as vaccines. Public health emergencies last for 90 days, but can D.C. residents waiting in line to receive a monkeypox vaccine.
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“I thought it was important to get it and be safe. To protect myself and other people,” Wittig said. “It was great. It was well organized and went very smoothly…If you have hesitancy it’s really easy to do.”
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For the walk-up vaccination locations, clients must provide proof of D.C. residency, which can include an ID, a lease or mortgage statement or a bill, all with the client’s name and D.C. address. College students, who are not residents, are able to receive their vaccine with student ID. For people experiencing homelessness who are unable to document residency, but are looking to be vaccinated, homeless service providers can issue a letter on their behalf.
6 // STREET SENSE MEDIA // AUGUST 24-30, 2022 NEWS DC expands monkeypox vaccination efforts to be more accessible as cases rise
Beginning August 5, District residents are able to receive walk-up monkeypox vaccinations at three D.C. Health clinics. Vaccines are limited, and are provided on a first-come firstserve basis every Friday from noon to 8 p.m. Each clinic will provide 300 doses of the vaccine each Friday until supply increases.
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“I thought it was important to get it and be safe. To protect myself and other people” — Bob Wittig
onkeypox is a growing concern in shelters, as at least two cases have been reported in people experiencing homelessness, according to D.C. Health officials, which was first reported by FOX5. Monkeypox is a viral illness that can be transmitted by close contact through touch, bodily fluid or lesions. Symptoms include fever, headache, fatigue, rashes and lesions with symptoms lasting up to four weeks. The CDC recommends that anyone who tests positive for monkeypox quarantine and isolate for the duration of their illness. When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic, people experiencing homelessness are considered a vulnerable group due to limited access to health care and social service resources. To slow the spread of COVID-19, D.C. health officials distributed vaccines in shelters and Pandemic Emergency Program for Medically Vulnerable Individuals, or PEP-V, early last February. D.C. Health officials have not yet released its plans to distribute monkeypox vaccines in shelters. People experiencing homelessness who may have contracted monkeypox and cannot stay at a congregate shelter can call the Isolation and Quarantine Hotline at 202-671-3076. Providers will arrange for clients to stay at a city-designated isolation site.
Dozens of residents wait in line for their vaccine.
“When we saw the first case in Massachusetts, the (D.C.) epidemiology department was already identifying the m-pox team. We ordered vaccines already just in case,” Mangla said. “This team went through almost a trial period, in a month, in case a case came. They were all prepared, so when the first case came to D.C. everything was very efficient.”
“I am a gay man of color, and I think it’s important to get the vaccine because based on what I’ve been seeing online, I don’t want to catch it. Whatever preventative measures I can take to not catch it, that's why I’m here,” Joey said.
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vaccine registration priority has been given to residents 18 and older of all sexual orientations who have had multiple sex partners within the last two weeks, people who identify as gay or bisexual men, transgender women or nonbinary people assigned male at birth who have sex with men, sex workers and staff at establishments where sexual activity occurs such as bathhouses, saunas and sex clubs. However, even if residents don’t meet the priority requirements, registration is still encouraged. In order to complete the online registration, one must provide an address, email and phone number and answer a number of health and lifestyle questions.
On a recent Friday, a man named Joey, who preferred not to disclose his full name, attended a vaccine pop-up.
According to Dr. Anil Mangla, the state epidemiologist of D.C., District health officials have been working closely with the CDC to ensure that it has an “effective system” in place. Mangla credited Dr. Laquandra Nesbitt, the former director of the D.C. Department of Health, and Mayor Muriel Bowser for a “proactive” and “upfront” response to the growing monkeypox cases by implementing a system of optimum testing.
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The District has received more than 20,000 doses of Jynneos as of Aug. 10, and has administered about 15,000 doses. Jynneos is an FDA approved live virus vaccine for the prevention of monkeypox. District health officials are currently prioritizing first doses as supply is limited.
Tsedaye Makonnen visits chiropractor Dr. Keita Vanterpool. Photo by Dee Dwyer / DCist/WAMU
Between 2014 and 2018, D.C. lost three dozen residents within one year of their pregnancy.
Taking some of that power back for Black birth workers in D.C. is Nedhari’s life work. Outside of her private practice, she’s the co-founder and executive director of Mamatoto Village, a Black birth worker collective that offers pre and postnatal wraparound care for primarily Black and immigrant women residing in Wards 7 and 8. Mamatoto Village is tackling a major problem in D.C.: bad outcomes for Black pregnant people, including preterm births, lower birth weight babies, and even death in comparison with their non-Black counterparts.
Both women know what the alternatives feel like, too. Makonnen has worked alongside Nedhari as a doula, advocating for Black patients in traditional medical settings, where they often face racist assumptions, microaggressions, and other barriers to effective care. Makonnen traces those dynamics back to the history of racism and white supremacy in the field of gynecology.
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T sedaye Makonnen is reclining on her couch, in her home in Northeast D.C. She’s 33 weeks pregnant, and she’s surrounded by three other Black women — a midwife and two trainees — who are performing a routine prenatal exam. The women take her blood pressure, measure her belly, and check on her overall well-being. One of them balances an iPhone so that Makonnen’s partner can join the appointment remotely. They talk about how to prepare for an at-home birth, discuss a recommendation for a culturally competent pediatrician, suggest some exercises to help adjust the position of the fetus for an easier birth, and go over Makonnen’s overall nutrition and wellness. They also laugh and joke: the group dissolves into laughter when Makonnen, who usually eats vegetarian, admits she’s been craving ribs. Makonnen chose at-home care for the birth of her son, who is now in elementary school, and for this second pregnancy, too. Home, she says, “is comfortable.” And so are the people she’s with. “I intentionally wanted to work with Black practitioners, because that’s who I feel the safest with,” she says. “Culturally, there’s just an understanding and a level of support that they can provide that other health practitioners can’t.”
It’s supposed to feel like that, says midwife Aza Nedhari, who is overseeing Makonnen’s care. “Every visit we’re building rapport, checking in on how the mother’s doing, how she’s feeling. There’s lots of laughs and hugs,” she says.
Between 2014 and 2018, D.C. lost three dozen residents within one year of their pregnancy due to related causes, according to a report from a District committee tasked with reviewing maternal deaths in D.C. (Nedhari is one of the co-chairs). 93% of them were Black. 70% had lived in Wards 7 and 8.
Experts say those losses are rooted in structural racism: the lack of resources in predominantly Black neighborhoods, the challenge of getting to prenatal appointments across the city, the biased way the medical community can treat Black patients.
“There’s only three grocery stores east of the river,” Nedhari points out. “People have to beg the council, they have to beg their city — that they pay taxes to — to provide basic necessities for them. And so to me, the maternal health issue is just one piece of a multitude of issues that are happening with people in this city.” Mamatoto Village serves some of the most at-risk pregnant patients in the District. In general, about 40% of their patients are housing insecure, 80% live below the poverty line, and 80% are food insecure. Last year, 88% of their patients were Black, and 61% lived in Wards 7 and 8. All of them were eligible for Medicaid. Statistically, people are much more likely to have negative pregnancy outcomes in D.C., or even to die. But that’s not happening for Mamatoto Village’s clients. Since the organization started serving families in 2013, they have not
8 // STREET SENSE MEDIA // AUGUST 24-30, 2022 NEWS This health clinic is filling a gap in care for pregnant people residing in Wards 7 and 8
Tsedaye Makonnen shares a laugh with her pregnancy care team in her living room. From left to right: Heather Walker, Aza Nedhari, Tsedaye Makonnen, and Aspen McCoy. Photo by Dee Dwyer / DCist/WAMU
Early practitioners, including the so-called “father of gynecology,” performed forced experiments on enslaved Black women that launched the field in the first place. “I think that the whole thing needs to be dismantled,” Makonnen says. “Power needs to be given back to the midwifery community.”
That sensibility informed the entire process of acquiring the property and designing the clinic, from start to finish. Nedhari and her team worked with a Black-owned real estate company to acquire the property. The sister of the clinic’s Director Of Operations, Briana Green, designed the interiors of the space. Now that it’s operational, Nedhari and her team plan to hold healthy cooking classes in the kitchen, where they’ve also started a milk dispensary for community members who can’t breastfeed. There’s a big space for yoga and other classes and community meetings. Opening the new clinic itself is a big step, but Nedhari already has her eye on expanding Mamatoto Village’s footprint even further.
“That’s my life mission: to give a different kind of energy to my sisters.” — Dionne McDonald Shakir came to Mamatoto after she put out a desperate call on Facebook for help in finding support during her pregnancy in 2015. A friend’s recommendation and a tearful but relieved phone call later and she was officially a client. During her pregnancy, Mamatoto staff helped Shakir understand what was happening to her body, and helped her know what questions to ask of medical providers.
Mamatoto Village cares for patients throughout pregnancy, during birth, and afterwards. Staff perform home visits to check in with pregnant patients and accompany them to traditional medical appointments. They offer culturally-competent midwifery — plus counseling, parent education, support for breastfeeding, and a variety of wellness services geared to helping patients eat healthy and exercise.
“We’re not the prescription, but we are one prescription for addressing that problem,” Nedhari says. That prescription is rooted in a deep knowledge of the community it serves, a celebration of Blackness, and a relentless commitment to providing care and advocacy for pregnant patients and their families.
The new clinic doubles the size of the nonprofit’s previous space, and includes exam rooms, a full kitchen, a community room and office space. And in keeping with Mamatoto’s care model, the whole place is meant to welcome the surrounding community in. “It was really important for this space to feel like a home when you walk in,” Nedhari says. The clinic rooms are painted in restful shades of blue and purple and the lights can dim to anyone’s preference. Images of Black people at every stage of motherhood hang on the walls, and children’s books by Black authors are scattered around. None of that is an accident, says Nedhari. “That cultural reflexivity is really, really important, that people here feel honored right about who they are as a Black person, that they don’t feel like being Black is associated with oppression,” she says. “We want them to feel uplifted. We want them to feel proud of who they are in the history and lineage that they are a part of.”
STREETSENSEMEDIA.ORG // 9 lost a patient due to pregnancy-related causes. In 2021, they took care of 144 patients, 70% of whom had vaginal deliveries. 80% avoided the neonatal intensive care unit. 80% also had babies of normal birth weight and the same percentage began breastfeeding.
“Our model of collective care provides the community you need to thrive; the resources to birth and parent on your own terms, and the pathways leading to personal transformation,” the Mamatoto website says. Mamatoto Village accepts insurance from a variety of Medicaid managed care organizations. The nonprofit also reserves space each quarter for people who don’t have the insurance they accept, or who are uninsured. Mamatoto’s staff is Black, and many are from the community they serve. They are perhaps one of the biggest testaments to Mamatoto’s success: several have come in for care and chosen to stay on as employees. “It was all consuming. It was amazing. And then from there I was like, ‘Oh, I need to be part of this,’” says Jazzmin Shakir, the education specialist at Mamatoto Village, who has also served as a Mamatoto-trained perinatal community health worker — “a cross between a doula and a social worker,” as she defines the role. Training more Black birth workers is a key goal of the nonprofit.
“Just not having the tools, not having the support really just sent me down a path of just trauma all the way through to having [my first daughter],” says Dionne McDonald, who has been on staff since 2014. Her experience with her first pregnancy made McDonald start asking questions and researching about Black birth experiences. A friend eventually suggested she take Mamatoto’s training course for perinatal community health workers, and she found her calling in the work. She estimates she’s supported hundreds of Black families in pregnancy and birth. “I’ve seen every part of the life cycle,” she says. “I’ve walked the path with so many families in this city, and in that I’ve healed from my trauma too.”
Now, McDonald helps Mamatoto Village with intake — bringing families who’ve been referred by a medical provider into the Mamatoto community and helping them learn what’s available to them. “In our society, Black women are the most unprotected,” she says. “That’s my life mission: to give a different kind of energy to my sisters.”
Soon, Mamatoto Village will be able to support more families. In June, they opened a brand new clinic on Sheriff Rd.InNortheast.thenewcenter, they plan to hold group yoga classes, social events for soon-to-be parents, and other activities to help patients develop and deepen their sources of community support. They’ll be able to see patients in exam rooms for the first time, though home visits will also continue.
“Just learning little tiny things will allow you to advocate for yourself, will allow you to really take on this whole pregnancy and this life changing experience,” she says. Other Mamatoto staff have first-hand experiences of pregnancy and birth that were far less supportive.
“My biggest hope and aspiration is that we will have this block of a village, (and) that people walk the block and they’re like, ‘That’s Mamatoto. I know that that’s the space for me,’” she says. One of Mamatoto Village’s goals is training more Black perinatal health workers like Tahira Henderson . Photo by Dee Dwyer / DCist/ WAMU Paris Olfus holds her newborn son Yisrael. Photo by Dee Dwyer / DCist/WAMU
I have walked to Farragut North every morning for the last 10 years to sell Street Sense. As my morning customers arrive, I try passing the time by attempting to watch Morning Joe on the office wall next to the Metro station. I say attempt because torture would be more pleasurable than being stuck watching Joe and Mika and their panel of Trump haters. However, this morning I decided to punish myself by listening to them. It was the morning after Liz Cheney lost to her challenger Harriet Hageman by 37 points. Mika and Joe were lamenting the loss of Cheney, a former Birther who opposed Joe Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan, a 20-year war launched by her father. She vehemently opposed same-sex marriage despite her sister being in a same-sex relationship. While claiming she evolved on the issue, she recently voted against the Equality Act, which would have added sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes under civil rights laws. There’s nothing unusual about politicians changing abominable positions — they usually get away with it. The
Why does the left suddenly think Liz Cheney is a hero?
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So it is conceivable that Trump-hating Leftists would elevate a person who voted with Trump 93% of the time, is firmly pro-life, and a defender of gun rights to be the face of the anti-Trump movement. Despite Liz Cheney's humiliating defeat, the take on Morning Joe wasn't that Wyoming voters wanted someone different to represent their state. Joe and Mika ripped into Republican voters by calling them un-American. How dare voters not follow our script and support our prescribed candidates? Morning Joe and the Washington establishment are shamelessly selling Liz Cheney as the one who will save America and thwart Donald Trump’s possible run in 2024. It's rather depressing what's become of Morning Joe. I don’t know how some of these people live with themselves. I don’t know how anyone from that audience with a soul can believe someone from the Cheney family, who presided over the deaths of thousands of Iraqis, is a viable alternative to Donald Trump.
I wonder if I’m the only one in Washington, D.C., not infected by Trump Derangement. I could never imagine a group of people hating Donald Trump so much that they would now champion Liz Cheney as a savior. Liz Cheney is not a hero or patriot, she’s a shameless opportunist. I feel sad for people so blinded by their hatred for Trump that believe she will be the Paul Revere who saves theAscountry.traffic started to pick up, I grabbed my bags, grateful that I’m immune to the twisted spins and manipulations of cable news.
Jeffery McNeil is a vendor with Street Sense Media.
How I would improve transportation in the District: Cleaner buses, more parking garages
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MAURICE SPEARS
alking is cool because I get to see what’s going on in my city. Is it safe? In some parts of the city, yes, and in some parts, no. Where there is shooting and killing and drug dealing, it’s not safe for the kids to walk. You never know when there is going to be a drive-by shooting, because of gun violence in D.C. I rode the bus today, I ride the metro sometimes, and I catch Uber sometimes. It’s good if you can’t find parking to take public transportation or to use Uber or Lyft. But sometimes people on the bus don’t have manners and they’re disrespectful. It’s also sometimes unsanitized because the seats are not getting sprayed down. I see that they wear masks on the bus, but I think we also need Lysol, so that the bus driver can spray it on the seats to keep the germs down. With gentrification, more construction companies are building in the city, and there is more traffic. I think they need to slow down with the real estate construction in the city and really come up with a plan for where the cars are going to be. With more traffic, it’s hard for the fire department and the ambulances to get through and respond to public safety needs. It could lead to more crime if people feel like the police can’t get there on time. That’s going to become a big crisis in Washington, D.C. It’s a problem when you can’t find parking. People come to restaurants, clubs and office buildings and find that you can’t park your car there. Business owners and employees can’t really find parking when they have to go to work. It’s rough on entrepreneurs trying to work in the city and bring the economy up, and also on tourists coming into the city. I think there should be signs put up letting visitors, tourists and citizens know they can’t park their car there at a certain hour, so their cars won’t be towed. I think that people are getting confused about where they are supposed to park downtown. It’s frustrating a lot of people who sometimes have to pay a ticket that they did not know they had to pay. The government needs to start a parking garage, so that people who work in D.C. can park their cars somewhere safe and where they won’t get a ticket. Then there would be a shuttle bus to drop these people in certain places on a schedule. Or there could be a special Metro bus for government employees and entrepreneurs. It could be funded by taxes, or the government could charge a little fee for membership. This would help bring more funds to the city, fix the economy and make the city better than it is now.
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left has completely glossed over Joe Biden, who began his Senate career opposing school busing, sent millions of Black men to prison with his crime bill, and told Black voters that if they had trouble deciding whether to vote for him or Trump, “you ain’t Black.”
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Over a bridge and onto a green pasture of light — your heart opens and brings you some peace of mind. People are glistening, walking through water in this city of mind. They are in pursuit of happiness, running through decorated sprinklers that drop like rain. Let’s toast the rails and see nature at its best. Snap a photo of some deer lurking amongst the trees. There are hawks soaring above them. The train tours here are pretty and nice. Here, you can meet new friends from different cultures.Theyhave amazing food to share. Now it’s time to get ice cream. Perhaps, some frozen ice over red beans with green tea matcha dipped with caramel chocolate. Take this on the route to your next site: the Rocky Mountains. There’s a huge waterfall splashing against the rocky walls of adventure. I believe that God made this structure to represent strength and long life. Many of us want to take pictures and touch these mountains. The rain from the mountains is clean, fresh smelling and freezing. It’s a delightful experience going through nature, riding the rails on the tracks.
I worked at Wired For Sound Studio and was asked to study and learn all of the music equipment on my own. No way! It was a volunteer position. It was a tedious task put forth before me that I did decline. I had no desire to be slaving in the studio, trying to learn the equipment. The producer says I gotta get this beat out of my head, as does the lyricist! But alas, mastering your craft can only make you all that much better. So, I guess that’s why I only have a few endeavors in my music career in spite of wanting to make an album back then. I just heard a conversation on this yesterday, about having the money to pay others to do your work versus making it all happen yourself. It’s very time-consuming, so you have that want and desire to do it! I can recall even walking away from computer programming as I saw it was quite the tedious task for such a small reward. The same thing would apply to my accounting endeavor. While I excelled at it in high school, I ran into a crucial issue with it in college once I switched my major to the business side of radio marketing and advertising. But I faced a problem I could not solve, to the point I began to believe the system was rigged in that the professor couldn’t get it right. It was the beginning of the conspiracy theories as I had gathered haters by then who despised even my noted D.C. thing of wearing my skully headgear. They considered it my new very own religion if I didn’t hear it mistakenly. I’d even say this was about the time that I somehow missed out on getting a TLC interview in spite of being in the place to be. Oh well! Who needs those types of headaches?
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Ah, Rehoboth, and Lewes as well, though their beach strip is way narrower with the dunes. And way too pebbly for bare feet’s comfort. Somewhere in the pines, the president weekends frequently. Some folks are miffed and grumble, “He oughta be out doin’ the world’s work, not layin’ back summering with Jill. Graph!” I’m not bothered — always been crazy for easy-going Delaware; and besides, my dad often rode the Amtrak, chatting with “Joe!” Back in ‘64, Deauville Beach was my hangout. Deauville is just far north enough to catch a glimpse of the three windblown cylindrical melks some call the Conning Towers. What was that? Concrete sentinel shafts built by the Navy? To monitor possible advances along the Atlantic coastline of German U boats and scows spilling out steely-eyed chunders. So on sun-drenched mornings with the orb but a winking pinhole in a scorching scrim of faded blue-grey, my summer buddy Jeff and I sat in the rolling tide-wash, looking out at the far breakouts, and screeching “SURF’S UP,” to the horror of the grown ups. All slathered in Coppertone oil, right to the rim of their Kit Kat eye protectors, they moaned in mock indignation. Our 11-year-old croaks were no more bothersome from the Monster Mash sandcastle standing in ruins from the righteous trampling by rival Jammie Boys, our Big Daddy Roth Kustom Kar Mag, spotted and windowpaned by tidal spray. “Whoo-oo, wawa-ha-ooeoowaah,” I gargled a Del-tones refraining while Jeff paddled clumsily seaward, his dented foam boogie board clutched forward.
I’ve seen enough hardships through life that sometimes we as people have to slow down and pay attention. I named this one after my favorite group, the Commodores. If you listen to slow jams or just good old-school ’70s and ’80s music there was a message like in “Zoom.” If you are reading this, I’m sending you the reader a song to listen to. Rewind the day or past then look at what’s going on. We learn a lot with age, with experience. And one major realization is how much time you wasted on things that didn’t matter. Situations that worked out or faded away. People that were not for us. So much time wasted. Which can get us down, fill us with regret, or can move the feeling changes and out wasting time. Be conscious of what we’re making a big deal out of. What are we allowing to get us upset? What or who are we giving space and time to? All the petty things don’t matter. Things, situations, and circumstances, all pass so quickly. Let’s not get hung up. Spend time on what really matters.
I wrote this acrostic poem to show much appreciation to one of Street Sense Media's newest employees, Maria Lares. Maria is our manager of artistic workshops and everyone is so pleased to have her on board. Even though she has been with us for just a few months now, her persona, her job knowledge, and her patience with each and every vendor/artist make it seem as though she has been working with us for years. With this, I want to say welcome to the one and only Maria Lares! I hope this poem comes as a surprise to you. I wrote this from the depths of my heart to show my appreciation to you.
When I think about the flavor of my childhood, the first thing that comes to my mind is fish and steak. My grandma used to cook for us because my mom was in school. We were a big family; I had 10 brothers and a sister. We were always in the house, all of us helping my grandma to make the food. She was a great cook. She cared for us, so she ensured that all of us ate well. She did a great fish with broccoli. I still have those memories with me, and now my favorite food is fish — and I am from Annapolis, and we had so much fish.
I struggled to learn how to read and write in elementary school. Every morning, before going to school, me and my sister sat down to a breakfast our father prepared for us. Typically, it was grits and eggs with tomato sauce poured over the top. Some mornings, we had cereal. For dinner, we ate fried chicken or pork chops with white rice, string beans and maybe some potato salad. We stretched these meals to make ends meet every week. My father was a cab driver and he cared for three children on his own. It was hard. I never want to see those days again. I am still struggling these days because of my mental illness. I have bipolar disorder and have trouble holding down jobs. I am homeless. I live in a shelter and sometimes, when I look back on my life, I wonder if this is my destiny. I hope not. I hope I can do better. Thank you for reading. God bless.
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Today I pray May I look back at these past years as good ones That nothing I did or said was wasted No experience — however insignificant it may have seemed — was worthless Hurt gave me the capacity to feel happiness, But bad times made me appreciate the good ones, What I regarded as my weakness became my greatest strength I thank God for the years of growing Peace and love.
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Damn my baby girl, you growing up. I want you to go to school, enjoy yourself and have fun. School years goes by so fast before you know it you tellin’ me, “Mommy, I am grown.”
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These times and the signs. Is the republic dying? Old school, new rules of engagement. The lies being told have become contagious to everyday Americans. I dare say. Liz, what a wiz. She is a true patriot. Not good enough to serve Trump. Put out the word. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are things of the past for the new Republicans who dared to ask, “Did the former guy really lose? Did he abuse his power in the Trump Towers? Will justice find any man just like death in the Lord’s time?” I see the signs of a republic dying a slow death. Democracy is being put up on a shelf. Is there anyone? Help. Adam serves his country with pride. One Republican who stood above the lies to do so had to retire from being a Republican representative. Another sign of these times when lies outweigh the truth. We should all do what Alaska does. One man, one vote, no party lines to tote the republic. Can’t stand not being beholden to one man. Some people say he has lied over 35,000 times to the republic. Is that a sign that the republic is dying a slow death independently? I would love to see Liz and Adam be the next nominees for president of the Republicans. That would be a sign that the republic has survived all these lies told by one former guy who made sure the signs
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Last Thursday at 4:30 a.m, I was walking through the Largo station to catch the train at 5 a.m. While walking in the parking lot, I heard glass being broken. As I got closer, I saw three guys breaking car windows, and taking whatever they wanted. I could not believe how cool and confident they were, like they were shopping. I hid behind a car, and one of the guys said, “I see you, with that big old hat on. If you don’t like it, call the police.” A metro employee also heard the noise and called the police. But by the time the police arrived, they were long gone. At least eight cars were busted up, with glass everywhere. People’s belongings were taken. So I say to people who park at the metro, do not leave valuables in your car. You never know what could happen. Stay safe.
RONALD SMOOT Artist/Vendor
Crime on metro PHILLIP BLACK Artist/Vendor
Be thankful that you don’t already have everything you desire. If you did, what would there be to look forward to? Be thankful for when you don’t know something for it gives you the opportunity to learn. Be thankful for the difficult times. During these times, you grow. Be thankful for your limitations because they give you opportunities for improvement. Be thankful for your mistakes. They will teach you valuable lessons. Be thankful when you’re tired and weary because it means you’ve made a difference. It’s easy to be thankful for the good things. A life of fulfillment comes to those who are also thankful for the setbacks. Find a way to be thankful for your troubles and they can become your blessings.
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