{"id":316,"date":"2019-06-12T18:25:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T18:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/?p=316"},"modified":"2019-06-12T20:54:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T20:54:46","slug":"trayon-white-proposes-d-c-bill-to-stem-gentrification-and-displacement-curbed-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/316\/","title":{"rendered":"Trayon White proposes D.C. bill to stem gentrification and displacement – Curbed DC"},"content":{"rendered":"

dc.curbed.com\/2019\/6\/11\/18661781\/dc-gentrification-displacement-trayon-white-legal-services<\/a>
\nNew D.C. bill seeks to prevent gentrification and displacement in \u2018high-risk\u2019 neighborhoods Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White is pressing for targeted services and funds
\nAndrew Giambrone Jun 11, 2019, 4:48pm EDT Outside the Congress Heights Metro station in Southeast D.C. The Washington Post\/Getty Images Since 2000, the District has experienced the most intense gentrification and an outsized amount of resident displacement among American cities, according to recent research\u2014changes that have predominately affected black and low-income residents in a city once dubbed \u201cChocolate City.\u201d Now, new legislation by Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White, who represents many Southeast neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River, aims to stem such changes by providing targeted services and funds in \u201chigh-risk displacement areas.\u201d
\nWhite introduced the \u201cEast of the River High-Risk Displacement Prevention Services and Fund Establishment Act of 2019\u201d last week at the D.C. Council\u2019s June 4 meeting. The bill would create a city grant fund for legal services to help curb evictions, improve housing conditions, and protect rental subsidies. The fund would also support tenant associations and advisory neighborhood commissions, and expand foreclosure-prevention assistance.
\nLaw school clinics and nonprofit organizations would be eligible to apply for the funding. Annual reports required by the legislation would have to include information on grantees, performance metrics \u201crelated to equity and inclusion,\u201d services provided, and their costs.
\nCurbed DC Newsletter
\nBy signing up, you agree to our Privacy Policy and European users agree to the data transfer policy. \u201cThe harm that displacement and gentrification is having on our city is too great to be ignored,\u201d White said in proposing the legislation. \u201cPeople are being forced out of their communities and their neighborhoods.\u201d Four other councilmembers have preliminarily signed onto the bill: At-Large Councilmembers Anita Bonds and Robert White, Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau, and Ward 7 Councilmember Vince Gray. It may get a public hearing in the coming months, and defines \u201cdisplacement risk zones\u201d as follows:
\ncensus tracts in Wards 7 and 8 showing burgeoning economic expansion and a net decline in low-income population, including [a] high concentration of economically declining tracts (neighborhoods) that have experienced decades of strong economic decline and a net increase in low-income population. … The first Displacement Risk Zone shall be comprised of census tracts 68.04, 73.01, 73.04, 74.01 74.03, 74.04, 74.06, 74.07, 74.08, 74.09, 75.02, 75.03, 75.04, 76.01, 76.01, 76.03, 76.04, 76.05, 77.03, 77.07, 77.08, 77.09, 78..03, 78.04, 78.06, 78.07, 78.08, 78.09, 79.03, 96.01, 96.02, 96.03, 96.04, 97.00, 98.01, 98.02, 98.03, 98.04, 98.07, 98.10, 98.11, 99.01, 99.02, 99.03, 99.04, 99.05, 99.06, 99.07, 104.00.
\nOne recent study cited by White, by the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity, found that over 38 percent of D.C. residents live in economically growing census tracts, in which low-income families are at the greatest risk of displacement. Another study cited by the Ward 8 councilmember, by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, concluded that about 40 percent of D.C.\u2019s lower-income neighborhoods were gentrified between 2000 and 2013.<\/p>\n

Mary Bolton 202-390-1208<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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