Empower DC: Community Meeting
Date and Time
Nov 13, 2023 6:30 pm
Location
Anacostia
2004 Martin Luther King Jr Ave SE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20020
Nov 13, 2023 6:30 pm
Anacostia
Empower DC has developed a strong track record of working to strengthen organized political power among DC’s lowest income communities to address issues of critical importance. Our work has included organizing and mobilizing a grassroots base of impacted low income residents to win increased funding for child care subsidies, create and strengthen some of DC’s most critical affordable housing laws, stop a polluting bus depot from locating in the heart of a low income African American community, fight against the closure of public schools, create accountability around the use of public land, and document previously unknown community history.
At the root of our work is a deep commitment to stopping the displacement of low income Black residents from DC, once known affectionately as Chocolate City, during an unprecedented time of gentrification. A citywide organization, our work has included long standing commitments to two of DC’s most historic Black communities – Ivy City and Barry Farm – in their fights for community-led equitable development, and against gentrification and displacement.
