In the Media

Can you help the poor by allowing them to build credit with their rent payments? The D.C. Council thinks so, having unanimously approved the Public Housing Credit Building Pilot Program Act of 2017.

Officials who administer food stamps in the District of Columbia must divert resources to improve how the agency processes applications, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

Despite high rents in the District of Columbia, annual reports from the DC courts show a downward trend in eviction filings. The number of evictions filed by landlords fell from 48,000 in 2003 to just over 31,000 in 2017.

The law at issue is the 38-year-old Tenants Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA), which allows any renter of an apartment or single-family home in D.C. the right of first refusal when the homeowner wants to sell.

Rapid rehousing is one of the District’s most criticized homeless services programs. Witnesses testified to D.C. Council for over six hours at the public-oversight roundtable in December.

American Airlines and a subsidiary will pay $9.8 million in stock to settle claims that they failed to help disabled employees return to work.

D.C.’s notorious slumlord, Carter Nowell of Sanford Capital, is now facing bank foreclosure at two of his properties and is delinquent in mortgage payments on three others.

The Post recently revealed, using lead-poisoning cases in Baltimore as an example, that unsophisticated people with structured settlements are being victimized by companies seeking to purchase their future payments for far too little and without r

Mold is a form of fungus that thrives indoors and out. It grows best in warm, damp and humid environments. That means those April showers don’t just bring May flowers — they bring mold to area apartments, too.