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 From the Office of DC Mayor, Muriel Bowser (Washington, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser celebrated the opening of the Todd A. Lee Senior Residences at Kennedy Street, a 38-unit, all-affordable senior community located in the Brightwood Park neighborhood of Ward 4. All 38 apartments are for residents who are 55 or older and earn no more than 50 percent of the area median income. “The Todd A. Lee Senior Residences embody our DC values and represent the importance of having safe and affordable homes for our seniors to age in place, in the communities they know and love,” said Mayor Bowser. “Todd’s legacy will live on through the many families he helped stay in DC, through the innovative programs he created, and now through these beautiful homes for our seniors.” The Todd A. Lee Senior Residences are a result of a solicitation to transform vacant land into affordable housing by the DC Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) who also provided a $7.4 million loan from th...

Content from ONE DC.org. Kelsey Gardens Tenants -- Organizing their Return! After a two-year court battle from 2005 to 2007, 54 families won the "the right to return" to 54 affordable units for the next 50 years in the new development, Jefferson at Market Square! Families can begin returning to the units in late 2013, marking a hard-fought victory. ONE DC has been working with Kelsey Gardens tenants since 2002. Parcel 42 -- Organizing the Community's voice in development decisions!  In a push led by DC residents, ONE DC secured more than 800 signatures on petitions delivered to the Mayor and city leaders and organized community residents to fill the Shaw Library for a community meeting with developers regarding the fate of Parcel 42.   Marriott Living Wage Jobs -- Organizing to Engage 3,000 DC residents! ONE DC participated in living-wage job rallies and organized with unemployed DC residents. In 2013, ONE DC will recrui...