Core Organizing Areas

  • Preserving and Increasing affordable housing opportunities as a way to curb displacement. 

  • Investing in people- first economic development and community- led violence prevention strategies to prevent violence.

  • Organizing for affordable and accountable energy services and for healthy housing investment so that the clean energy transition benefits all, not just those who can afford it. 

WIN is organizing around 3 core areas: 

Each of our core areas are interconnected and have a root cause of racial capitalism, expressed through both federal and local government, as well as corporate entities prioritizing profit over people.

Specifically within the District, Black, Immigrant and low-income communities have been both extracted from: the example of the taking of land from Black communities in Urban Renewal, and intentionally divested from, through policies like redlining and racial housing covenants. As a result of systemic exclusion, the same communities have also been denied the agency to shape decisions for their own neighborhoods. 

Affordable Housing & Homeownership

Preserving and Increasing affordable housing opportunities  WIN is working with allied organizations across DC to curb displacement and create opportunities for people to remain in their homes.  Through Black Equity through Homeownership (BETH), WIN is organizing to close the racial wealth gap through securing $10 million in public investments for the preservation and creation of affordable home ownership opportunities. And WIN works with organizations through the city who support people experiencing homelessness to ensure they are treated with dignity and receive the support to move from homelessness to housing.

Healthy Homes & Utility Affordability

Organizing for affordable and accountable energy services and for healthy housing investment so that the clean energy transition benefits all, not just those who can afford it. Following our work to pass the The Healthy Homes Act, WIN and our partners are leading the transition toward decarbonization and sustainable housing for working-class owners and renters.

 Economic Justice &

Public Safety

WIN works with organizations across the DC to build stronger and safer communities by addressing the root causes of suffering and violence in the city.  Chief among those are poverty, economic inequality, and a structural lack of access to basic needs, such as food, housing, health care, and safe spaces.  By focusing on and investing in people- first economic development and improved access to the things all people need, we’ll develop a district-wide plan to transform our neighborhoods and city.  The work includes partnerships that will involve organizations with a track record of providing for the needs of those most impacted and the successes in DC and other communities.