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Racine Receives Legal Aid DC Honor
They waited decades for D.C. housing aid. Will changes finally bring relief?
Testimony from Legal Aid's Amanda Korber was featured in The Washington Post: "To me, this means DCHA is sending a clear message with its policy: It is more interested in clearing its waitlist and making itself look good than actually housing people."
D.C. Housing Authority To Open Waiting List, Adopt New Governing Procedures
Legal Aid's Amanda Korber was quoted in DCist in an article about the D.C. Housing Authority reopening its waitlist: "...the public housing waitlist is stagnant because units have been sitting dilapidated and vacant. That’s part of my frustration – there is a mismatch between what they’re doing and what they’re trying to solve. That isn’t and wasn’t what the problem with the waitlist was.”
Immigrants Lobby D.C. Council To Support and Fund A Package Of Bills
Legal Aid's June Lee was quoted in DCist's coverage of advocacy efforts at the D.C. Council: “It’s kind of premised on the idea that if you want to be pro-immigrant, you also want to be anti-poverty, you want to be anti-discrimination.”
D.C. housing officials say they will stop overpaying landlords
Legal Aid's Amanda Korber was quoted in The Washington Post on D.C. Housing Authority overpayments to landlords: “It was a problem that was raised, recognized and anytime somebody tried to address it, it seems like they were kind of hushed."
Leadership, waitlists, vouchers: Unpacking key findings in HUD’s DCHA audit
Legal Aid's Amanda Korber was quoted in Greater Greater Washington's coverage of HUD's D.C. Housing Authorty audit.
D.C. Council to vote on housing authority overhaul in packed meeting
Legal Aid's Amanda Korber was quoted in The Washington Post on the proposed overhaul of the D.C. Housing Authority: “The Mayor’s majority on the Board of Commissioners is what got DCHA to where it is today — a failing agency that has lost its sense of purpose and mission.”
A Pivotal Reform to Protect Consumers: D.C.'s New Debt Collection Law
Volunteer Staff Attorney Tom Papson details the District's updated debt collection law in the Washington Lawyer
Concerns Grow During Delay of Unemployment Benefits in DMV
Days after President Trump signed a $900 billion pandemic relief package, people seeking unemployment benefits continued to wait for payments to be issued.
Days after President Trump signed a $900 billion pandemic relief package, people seeking unemployment benefits continued to wait for payments to be issued.
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