Hill Rag Magazine – November 2020

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fort of their homes via the DCEFF website. Many of the films screening in the showcase are DCEFF awardwinners. Some of the highlights: Okavango: River of Dreams, the new film by renowned nature photographers Dereck and Bevery Joubert that had its World Premiere earlier this year at Sundance; Cannes Best Documentary winner The Cordillera of Dreams, which investigates the relationship between historical memory, political trauma and geography in Chile; and Flint: Who Can You Trust, a film that takes an unflinching look at how the Flint water crisis came to be and who is responsible for it. For more information, visit www.dceff.org.

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DPW has announced changes to the 2020-21 leaf collection season to keep residents and DPW crews safe and healthy. This year, residents will be asked to use a contactless, more environmentally-friendly process of placing their leaves in paper bags. Collections will still occur twice in each neighborhood, beginning Nov. 9 through Jan. 4. DPW will provide 20 free paper bags to each residence serviced by DPW to assist in the transition. dpw.dc.gov.

DCHFA Finances Affordable Housing Development in NoMa The District of Columbia Housing Finance Agency has closed on its second transaction of Fiscal Year 2021 by funding the construction of 220 new affordable apartments at Northwest One located at North Capitol and K St. NW in Ward 6. The project is a component of the Northwest One Redevelopment Plan, which is a New Communities Initiative from the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development. Northwest One Phase I is the first of three phases that will create a vibrant mixed-use, mixed-


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