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It wasn’t the first time the 45-year-old woman’s husband had verbally abused her. But last September, he “spiraled out of control,” she said. In front of their children in their Northeast D.C. living room, he threatened to stab her to death.

It’s literally in the American Bar Association’s manual — Model Rule 6.1 calls for a goal of 50 hours of pro bono service per year for each and every lawyer.

The move comes after an I-Team investigation found what housing advocates call a gap in enforcement.

On Tuesday, the Council passed a bill that increases the amount of District residents’ paychecks that are protected from debt collection.

The District of Columbia must face a lawsuit over its slow processing of food-stamp applications and its failure to notify recipients when it's time to recertify their benefits, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

D.C.’s public housing residents have a common refrain when they talk about the conditions of their homes.

The threat of eviction is nothing new for the millions of families who have been forced out of their homes, potentially leaving their neighborhoods, schools, and support systems behind.

D.C. officials insisted on Monday that Mayor Muriel Bowser’s plan to close and demolish the D.C.

Carson’s proposal, if approved by Congress, would at least triple the minimum rent that extremely low-income Americans pay for housing.