The Washington Post, December 4, 2015: (Op-Ed) A public investment in low-income homeowners and renters
“The public investment in St. Elizabeths has, as the mayor hoped, triggered development of a new complex of apartments, offices and retail above the Congress Heights Metro station. Getting it done will require razing four rent-controlled apartment buildings, home to poor, elderly and fixed-income residents. These buildings are owned, according to residents quoted by The Post, ‘by two politically connected developers, who have failed to make improvements to the four apartment buildings even as many residents live in squalor.’ The consolation to these displaced residents: a mere $1,200 in moving costs and the potential to live in the new building — but in smaller units.”