Category: Housing
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#StopGentrification
Attention, For those living in #Brookland area of #DC. Tomorrow (November 2nd, 2015) there is a #community only meeting from 7 pm to 9 pm. At Ross auditorium, Providence Hospital. Topic: Trying to stop the potential development of 140 – 240 townhouses on the Josephite seminary property. Located at 1200 Varnum Street NE. ANC, a development company is trying…
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New Location, Same Projects!
Comrades, Friends and Family, We have finally moved to a new location in the Brookland area of DC! (4219 12th Pl. NE, Washington, DC, 20017). We’re in the process of collecting non-perishable food items for the homeless and low income housing areas of northeast and southeast DC through our program “Working Poor DC (WPDC).” Which…
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Concepcion Picciotto & The Peace House DC EVICTED?!
Concepcion Picciotto & The Peace House DC EVICTED?! December 10th, 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE After a long battle within this court system trying to get The Peace House DC house up to code. December 10th, 2014 at 1 pm the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) will come to the Peace House to secure…
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Hearing on Order to Close or Vacate The Peace House DC
Hearing on Order to Close or Vacate The Peace House DC FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 26th, 2014 On November 26th, 2014, we filed an appeal on the Order to Vacate dated November 21st, 2014. Which was approved since it was within five (5) calendar days of the service of the order. We have a court…
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The Peace House DC – Ordered to Vacate?!
The Peace House DC – Ordered to Vacate FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 22nd, 2014 After almost a year of fighting an eviction and asking for housing codes violations to be corrected by our landlord Ellen Thomas; a peace and anti-nuclear activist. The Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) has decided to punish the residence…
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Rally for Respect: Stand with DC Homeless
The Situation in DC General’s shelter is deplorable! There are infestations of mold and rats. Available funds are not being used for repairs. Residents have been given moldy food. In a complex with a methadone clinic and a jail, the hundreds of children at DC General have no safe place to play. Relisha Rudd was…
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Peace House Landlord ready to evict activists
For Immediate Release Peace House Landlord ready to evict activists February 19th, 2014 Effective today, The Peace House has been notified that we will face eviction if we don’t come up with $1,350 by March 15th, 2014. This has threatened and may cause the dissolution of the iconic and historic White House Anti-Nuclear Peace vigil…
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Justice to Justice Protest – Home Defenders League
Taylor Hall, Co-House Manager of The Peace House was arrested covering a foreclosure action. In which 7 women were arrested for protesting the massive home foreclosures happening throughout the country. The women have themselves lost homes due to foreclosure. Towards the end of the protest the police used a typical snatch and grab tactics and…