A HUD report finds DCHA “woefully out of compliance” with disability housing laws, leaving tenants in unsafe, inaccessible conditions.

Abel Putu advocates for wheelchair basketball.

Jeff Taylor thinks of ways to make the city more accessible.

You are not alone — It’s many of us who do not have a home A place of our own…

Abel Putu shares some of the harsh realities faced by countless people who are experiencing homelessness.

Donté Turner speaks truth to power and makes a simple request to those with privilege.

Artist and vendor Abel Putu writes about the toxic nature of discrimination and his own experience facing it calling or more understanding.

Over 200 tenants — who’ve been waiting years to receive reasonable disability accommodations — are at the forefront of the lawsuit against the D.C. Housing Authority.

Waymap, an app designed to help visually impaired users navigate the world around them, has partnered with WMATA.

Artist/Vendor Abel Putu shares about his wheelchair basketball team the NRH Punishers.

Public housing residents elected Kenneth Council and Denise Blackson to the DCHA oversight board.

Jeff Taylor reflects on how he became homeless.

Abel Putu writes about his goals for the upcoming year.

Since 2014, the D.C. nonprofit Legal Counsel for the Elderly (LCE) has run what is known as the “veterans advocacy…

With a backlog of over 70,000 households, the demand for public housing is steadily growing in the city amid a precipitous rise in housing costs. Meanwhile, seniors and people with disabilities already in D.C. public housing struggle especially, with a 255-household waiting list for ADA-compliant units.

If the funding sticks, the office could help promote civil rights for thousands of deaf residents.

Artist/Vendor Abel Putu reflects on his personal motivations in overcoming his challenges.

I’m looking to see the warmer weather happenin’ and I’m waiting for the pandemic to be over. We’ll be able to play wheelchair basketball again.

A poem by artist and vendor Darlesha Joyner.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded Community Connections almost $924,000 for permanent supportive housing.