Friends and Residents Gave
Voice to the Voiceless,
Power to the Powerless, and
Hope in Hopeless Times

Friends and Residents was an effort by the residents of Arthur Capper and Carrollsburg, a neighborhood that is being taken down by the DC Housing Authority. Friends and Residents formed in response to the Housing Authority's plans to tear down our community, so that we could take a stand for our rights to housing.

We organized meetings, held protests, met with the Housing Authority to voice our concerns, sponsored marches and worked tirelessly to make sure that the voiceless of our community had a voice - loud and clear.

Central to our work was community building and leadership development. As the Housing Authority continued with its plans to displace, indeed replace, the people who live here, we stood up for our rights. We worked hard to keep developing leadership in the community.

Friends and Residents, in addition to its political work, provided tutoring and mentoring for resident youth. We also helped produced a play to document our work.

Friends and Residents worked with other poor people's groups, including the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign and the University of the Poor.