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2024: Housing: Chevy Chase’s most divisive project advances: A new library with housing

2023: CLIMATE:

• Audio of Radio Recording
• DC Weighs Bill That Would Pay for Some Residents to Switch From Gas to Electric
• DC Bill Would Allow Free Switch From Gas to Electric Appliances for Some Residents
• Barbara Briggs on The DMV Zone
• Leaders Push for Gas Alternatives in Northeast DC
• DC Council considers funding to switch 30,000 residents from gas to electric
• D.C. Council Pushes Back Against Mayor’s Proposal To Delay Key Climate Policy
• Mayor’s Budget Proposal Would Zero Out DOEE Funding for Key Challenges
• D.C. Resident’s Fight To Fix Gas Leaks Amplifies Calls for Electrification
• Howard County Council Passes Legislation for All-Electric Construction in New Buildings
• Howard County Becomes 100th U.S. Locality to Pass a Key Climate Policy
• Does My Gas Stove Really Have to Go?

• D.C. Households to Receive Millions in Federal Energy Rebates

• Washington Gas wants to raise D.C.’s residents’ rates by 20%

2023: HOUSING:

• New year, new agency? DCHA reform efforts continue into 2023

• Black Homeownership Declines in D.C. Due to High Student Debt, Says New Report

• Chevy Chase ANC Endorses Some Housing At Civic Core Site, But Leaves A Community Divided

• Clergy OP-ED in Greater Greater Washington make-a-home-for-affordable-housing-in-chevy-chase-dc
• Student Debt & Homeowner Barriers in Washington DC – Report by the Jain Family Institute

2023: Public Safety:

• DCIST – ‘We Live In A Very Wicked Time’: Residents, Lawmakers Exasperated By D.C.’s
• Contentious DC crime bill draws heat for stop and frisk, search measures

2021-2022: CLIMATE:

• Washington Post: Hundreds of gas leaks found in D.C. — some ‘potentially explosive,’ report says
• Fox 5: What’s that smell? Hundreds of gas leaks reported in DC
• DCist: Hundreds Of Natural Gas Leaks In D.C. Contribute To Climate Change
• Washington Informer: Study Reports Hundreds of Methane Gas Leaks in D.C.
• WJLA: Hundreds of methane gas leaks found across DC, survey says
• Washington Post: Opinion: Gas leaks in D.C. threaten health, safety and the climate
• The Air Inside the House: The Connection Between Our Homes and Asthma

BETH Black Equity Through Homeownership: 

• https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/inequality-in-america/dc-black-churches-team-up-to-provide-homes/2948558/?fbclid=IwAR0U24IBUYJwI92ofn6cWpGQZsN46OnmNHmVVl1T-qPq_rVmtV08Ojqa9fM
• https://thehilltoponline.com/2022/02/07/d-c-religious-organizations-collaborate-to-slow-gentrification/
• https://wtop.com/dc/2022/02/dc-churches-create-access-to-home-ownership-among-black-residents/
• https://www.washingtoninformer.com/d-c-churches-build-equity-for-black-homeowners/

• Mayor Bowser & DC Housing Authority to Cut the Ribbon on Long-Awaited Northwest One

Public Lands/Public Housing:

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/18/friendship-heights-has-chance-begin-rectify-its-racist-past/
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/11/06/benning-terrace-dcha-brenda-donald-demands/

2018:

• D.C. Circulator operations contract going to a new provider – Washington Post (June 4th, 2018)
• Bus drivers, allies make a case for putting D.C. Circulator under city control – Washington Post (May 14th, 2018)
• How can the D.C. region absorb an Amazon headquarters if it can’t cope now with gridlock and housing costs? – The Washington Post (May 12th, 2018)

• How we got the gun industry to reckon with its deadly toll – NY Daily News (May 11, 2018)
• Mayor Helps Break Ground on Affordable Housing in Ward 8 – NBC Washington (March 29th, 2018)

• Residents of a D.C. apartment complex won a ten-year fight to save their homes – Think Progress (March 29th, 2018)
• Organized citizens have a lot to do with Metro’s progress – Washington Post OpEd (March 29th, 2018)

• D.C. Invests Big in Redevelopment of Neglected Southeast Complex Into Affordable Housing – Washington City Paper (February 15th, 2018)

• Faith, Community Leaders Support Mayors Against Gun Violence – NBC Washington (January 25th 2018)

2017:

• This decade-old parking lot used to be more than 200 public housing units. Now there’s finally a plan to rebuild. – Greater Greater Washington (December 12th, 2017)

• D.C. May Seek To End Private Contracts For Public Transit – WAMU (November 30th, 2017)

• Almost a Decade After Demolition, a Storied Site in NoMa Gets a Big Redevelopment Plan – Washington City Paper (November 30th, 2017)
• 400 Person Metro Region Action on Transit – Washington Post  (May 7th 2017)
• Green Jobs – Rooflines (May 3rd 2017)
• Temple Courts Interview with Nathan Brown and John Ducey – The Kojo Show (April 26th 2017)

2016:

• Parkway Overlook Gets Funding – Washington City Paper (November 11th 2016)
• VIDEO: WIN Leaders at DC General Bill Signing – ABC 7 (June 14th 2016)
• Confronting Homelessness in Washington, D.C. The DC General Campaign – Spotlight on Poverty (June 7th 2016)
• Victory! Now What? DC General – NextChurch (June 3rd 2016)
• With Final Vote, D.C. Moves To Close D.C. General Homeless Shelter – WAMU (May 31st 2016)
• After 3-Year Fight, WIN Celebrates Passage of Bill to Close DC General & Open Community-Based Short Term Family Housing (May 31st 2016)
• Coalition Asks Mayor To Make Big Changes To D.C. Homeless Shelter Plan – WAMU 88.5 (April 27th 2016)
• At a hearing on DC General, opposition runs the gamut from rational to prejudicial- Greater Greater Washington (March 28th 2016)

2015:

• D.C. Residents Urge Mayor to Create Jobs, Close D.C. General- NBC4 (November 19th 2015)

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Actions Archive:

300+ Person Ward 1 Candidate Action (April 2018)

200+ Person Downtown Transit Action (October 2017)

650+ Person City-Wide Action (July 2017)

400 Person MetroIAF Regional Action (May 2017)

WIN held a 190+ person action with Wards 1 and 4 demanding commitments around affordable housing (June 2016).

Over 200 People Turn Out To Demand Justice In Ward 6 (May 2016)

WIN Inaugural Action with DC Mayor Muriel Bowser – Report with Photos and Social Media (January 2015) March 6th Action Report and Photos! (March 2014) February 6th Jobs Action – Photos and more! (January 2014) 700+ Leaders and 6 Councilmembers Demand Jobs from DC Water (April 2013) I AM A VOTER – Early voting rally and march (April 2013) WIN Leaders Push for DC Water Jobs in Wards 4 and 8 (April 2013)