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"Four Hundred Units for Four Hundred Units"
- by a resident of Arthur Capper and Carrollsburg

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I'm a working mother who was injured on her job working in my industry. My rent went down but if I wasn't in public housing I would still be paying $500 rent. But by living in public housing my rent is adjusted to my income. If this wasn't the case I would be on the street with my children.

Twenty thousand families are on the waiting list for public housing. I was on the waiting list for 11 years. During that time I lived with my three boys in one room. And during the winter time we couldn't afford to have the heat on. It was a very bad time for me and my children. Given that there are thousands who remain on the waiting list, going through what I went through, why is the Housing Authority planning on cutting the number of public housing units? Why is the HOPE 6 plan for my neighborhood going to cut the number of low income units from 400 to 140? This is no response to the affordable housing crisis Washington, D.C. is experiencing.

I am in the organization Friends and Residents of Arthur Capper Carrollsburg. We are asking for one to one replacement. While the Housing Authority talks about this, their plans speak much louder. Their plans come up short. If four hundred low income units are torn down, four hundred low income units need to be rebuilt.

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