A community comes together to expand an important DC urban garden
It only occupies a small open area near Allen Chapel AME Church in Southeast D.C., but a newly expanded urban garden is having a big impact on the community it serves. – WTOP News
Opinion: A bridge-turned-park in Southeast can be a national example of how to reconnect communities
Largely overlooked in President Biden’s economic recovery and infrastructure plan is sweeping effort to reconnect communities divided by urban highways. The $20 billion in aid Biden proposed in his American Jobs Plan would be a historic effort to correct the racism in how we built our highway system and lay the groundwork for reinvigorating neighborhoods… – The Washington Post
Can a Park Prevent Gentrification?
“…and Building Bridges across the River, the nonprofit behind the bridge plan, is channeling the resources raised for the park to promote truly equitable development, especially in long-neglected Anacostia and its surrounding neighborhoods.” — Next City
500 DC families received $1,100 a week. Here’s how it helped them.
In Ward 8, four organizations have come together to help residents improve their financial situation in a simple way — by giving them five monthly cash payments of $1,100. – Street Sense Media
Creating Economic Stability for D.C.’s Ward 8 Residents
THRIVE East of the River is helping hundreds of families in Ward 8 navigate the COVID-19 pandemic through financial assistance and mentorship – Washington City Paper
Mural at Hopkins Apartments Reflects Urban Farm and Community
As summer began to recede, a new mural came to life at Hopkins Apartments. Created by the residents with the help of two local artists, the new mural reflects a recently developed onsite urban farm. – Hill Rag
Insights from a DC Cash Relief Program Can Inform Discussions about Federal Cash-Based Policies
Public awareness for cash-based social policies was growing before the COVID-19 pandemic, and public support for them has proliferated since the pandemic started to roil the US economy in March. – Urban Institute
CELEBRATE THE NEWEST MURAL IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AT THE HOPKINS GARDEN
Murals around town, and especially on the Hill, are reminders that our world is happier and bolder with color and art in it. The Capitol Hill Restoration Society recently shared a compilation of murals around the neighborhood, and I noticed there was a glaring omission: The mural at the Hopkins Garden. – The Hill is Home
‘Beacon of hope’: New Mural brightens community garden in Southeast DC
A new art display is brightening up a community park in Southeast D.C. that helps provide food to local families and brings the neighborhood together. – wtopnews
How a Washington, DC coalition is using place-based cash relief to advance an equitable COVID-19 recovery
Today’s public health and economic crises have brought long-overdue attention to our nation’s deeply engrained challenges of income inequity, structural racism, and a tattered safety net. Moreover, they reveal how these challenges unfold spatially to concentrate in neighborhoods that have continuously wrestled with economic exclusion, disinvestment, and discrimination – creating an urgent need for place-based solutions that provide relief to the most impacted people in the hardest-hit neighborhoods – The Brookings Institution