{"id":47132,"date":"2025-06-23T21:02:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T21:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/?p=47132"},"modified":"2025-10-02T07:39:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T07:39:48","slug":"cm-white-threatens-dc-residents-housing-futures-with-oah-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/dc\/47132","title":{"rendered":"CM White Threatens DC Residents’ Housing Futures with OAH Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Press Alert, DC for Reasonable Development<\/b><\/font><\/div>\n
dc4reality@gmail.com<\/a><\/a>,\u00a0 202-810-2768<\/b><\/font><\/div>\n

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Robert White Considering a Slew of Bowser Proposals to Hasten Evictions of DC Residents; One Change: Having the OAH Arbitrate Housing Issues, An Agency Without Any Online Pleadings Docket<\/b><\/font><\/div>\n

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Washington, DC<\/b> — Including\u00a0the attacks on\u00a0 TOPA<\/a>, ERAP<\/a>, SNAP<\/a>, and TANF<\/a>.
\nRobert White, City Councilmember At-Large, is considering carrying\u00a0more water for Mayor Bowser by shifting housing conditions and eviction cases to the DC Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH)<\/a> from the DC Landlord Tenant Court<\/a>.<\/font><\/div>\n

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Unlike the DC Landlord\u00a0Tenant Court, the OAH does not have any public online dockets, keeping the misery of the current DC evictions parade quite\u00a0discrete and out of the public eye.\u00a0<\/font><\/div>\n

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“It's a serious joke that Mr. White would be putting the imminent threat of homelessness and the future of DC families in the hands of an agency, the OAH, that doesn't even account for filings and pleadings with an online docket,” stated Chris Otten, co-convenor of DC for Reasonable Development.<\/font><\/div>\n

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This morning,. members of the Green New Deal Coalition and Fair Budget Coalition among others had a sleep-in at CM Whites' office protesting Mayor\u00a0Bowser's cuts to fundamental housing\u00a0programs in\u00a0this year's budget. During the action, it was reported by Council staff\u00a0 that Mr. White was down at the DC Landlord Tenant Court.<\/font><\/div>\n

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From: East Peterson-Trujillo<\/b> <east@gndfordc.org<\/a><\/a>><\/span>
Date: Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 12:46\u202fPM
Subject: RELEASE: Activists “Sleep In” in Council Member White's office to demand housing
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PRESS RELEASE<\/span><\/p>\n

Contact: <\/span>Sophia Bos Shadi | sophia@fairbudget.org<\/a><\/a> | 779-279-4251<\/span><\/p>\n

Community Members call on Robert White to \u201cTax the Rich, House the District\u201d in Sleep-In at Wilson Building<\/span><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON, DC \u2014 Over a dozen community members joined a “sleep-in\u201d at the John A. Wilson Building in Council Member At-Large Robert White's office on the morning of June 23rd to call on the Council Member to raise revenue to fund housing programs in this year\u2019s budget.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are a group of folks directly impacted by homelessness and housing issues and their allies. We are here to demand that Robert White CHOOSE US, and commit to tax wealth to fund the housing programs we rely on to survive,\u201d said Taniya Rogers, Community Organizer with ONE DC.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Advocates engaged in a sleep-in in solidarity with people who navigate life without a place to lay their head each night.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bearing sleeping bags and blankets, residents laid down in the office and demanded that Council Member White tax the rich to invest in housing in the District. They chanted, “What do we want? Housing! How do we get it? Tax the Rich!”<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Rogers also said<\/b>, \u201cA lot of our families who are homeless are upset, are sad, and are trying to find comfort in the city that they helped to create and build…So if this is what it is that we have to do to support them, then this is what we are going to do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Residents demonstrated ahead of the Housing Committee\u2019s budget markup on June 24th.\u00a0 Advocates are calling on the Council to fund Emergency Rental Assistance, affordable housing preservation in the Housing Production Trust Fund, public housing repairs, vouchers, and to protect the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act.<\/span><\/p>\n

One teacher who participated in the sleep-in shared that they were taking action to advocate for their students who are homeless.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Outside, a rally was planned to bring together diverse communities from across DC to hear from speakers directly impacted by issues of housing and homelessness, but was canceled due to this week's extreme heat, which advocates noted will impact unhoused folks first and worst.<\/span><\/p>\n

Photos and video of the Sleep-In can be found <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

About FBC<\/span><\/p>\n

The Fair Budget Coalition (FBC)<\/span><\/a> <\/span>advocates for budget and public policy initiatives that address systemic social, racial and economic inequality in the District of Columbia. We work to accomplish these goals by leveraging the collective power of our Coalition Member organizations and impacted community members, particularly those from Black and other communities of color.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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Press Alert, DC for Reasonable Development dc4reality@gmail.com,\u00a0 202-810-2768 Robert White Considering a Slew of Bowser Proposals to Hasten Evictions of DC Residents; One Change: Having the OAH Arbitrate Housing Issues, An Agency Without Any Online Pleadings Docket Washington, DC — Including\u00a0the attacks on\u00a0 TOPA, ERAP, SNAP, and TANF. Robert White, City Councilmember At-Large, is considering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}