Posted on September 12, 2019 | Patrick Gregoire, ONE DC

Every few weeks, the Weissberg Foundation features a story from one of our Reframing <Washington> Empowerment Fund grantee partners to shine a light on their critical work. Learn more about these powerful organizations by visiting their websites.

ONE DC exercises political strength to create and preserve racial and economic equity in Shaw and the District. Through a shared leadership model involving community members; tenant organizing; popular education; and its Black Workers Center, ONE DC works to transform the nation’s capital into a place where low income, poor, and immigrant communities are organized, educated, and trained to take action to create and preserve social and economic equity and achieve the people’s vision to develop grassroots leadership that will build a movement for positive systematic change.

ONE DC’s Right to Housing campaign supports long-time DC residents struggling against displacement and to find and maintain safe and affordable housing. We organize with tenants to resist landlord’s and developer’s displacement tactics; to convert tenant buildings into cooperatives; or win resident’s right to return. Through direct action, political education, and a slew of other organizing strategies, we work to ensure that housing remains truly affordable and seek to minimize citywide efforts to privatize and demolish much-needed subsidized and; public housing. Our city-wide People’s Platform puts forward a platform to create truly affordable housing and end the displacement of long-time residents in an increasingly inequitable city. This pictorial tells the story of some of the experiences our members discussed during the Right to Housing Mini-Assembly.