Formerly homeless families displaced from D.C. transitional housing after fires
“Since she came to the Weinberg Building in 2018, Copeland has been displaced twice. Her first apartment in the building had multiple maintenance problems, she said, including a loose window that fell from its frame in a storm in November. After she was sent to a hotel after that incident, she returned to her current apartment in December, only to be sent back to the hotel days after Christmas because of the recent fire.
The hotel stays were difficult, Copeland said. Other guests were uncomfortable around her and her 4-year-old son because they are Black, she said. She was excluded from the hotel’s free breakfast because she is unvaccinated. And each day on the walk to take her son to school, they would pass their apartment building.”