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Low-barrier shelters in D.C. neared capacity last week during a heat emergency declared by the District as temperatures reached a heat index of 105 degrees in some parts of D.C. However, overflow sites are not being prepared as bed space still remains throughout the shelter system.

On June 28, the District only had 15 remaining beds for men, factoring in all low-barrier sites and overflow space at the Salvation Army. Resident numbers at all low-barrier shelters are monitored hourly throughout the night and capacity varies as guests arrive or leave.

On June 30, 95% of beds at 801 East, 88% of beds at the Community for Creative Non-Violence drop-in center, and 99% of beds at the Pat Handy Legacy site were occupied. The other two low-barrier men’s shelters, Adams Place and New York Avenue, were at 100% capacity. The week before, Patricia Handy Legacy site, New York Avenue Shelter, and Adam’s Place Shelter reached full occupancy for male residents on June 25.

Women’s shelters experienced less capacity strains for the same dates, but still maintained high numbers of residents. About 86% of beds at the Harriet Tubman shelter, 91% at the Community for Creative NonViolence, 61% at Patricia Handy Shelter, 100% at the Adam’s Place Day Center were occupied on June 30.

Reporting from Street Sense Media showed that about only half of D.C.’s cooling centers listed in the city’s Heat Emergency Plan were aware of the June 27-30 heat emergency when contacted. While the public can call 311 or a shelter hotline (202-399-7093) for free transportation to a cooling station or shelter, the transportation service isn’t available until 6 p.m. according to a hotline operator.

DHS considers vaccination rates and the spread of COVID-19 within the homeless community when considering overflow sites. As of March 2020, shelters have encouraged residents to stay in one place to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. Despite health concerns in congregate living, shelters maintained high usage this spring. While the number of shelter beds made available was reduced due to the virus, 73% of beds at male shelters and 75% of beds at female shelters were occupied in February.

The Salvation Army has been operating an overflow shelter space with 23 beds available. At this time, no other overflow sites are open, although DHS has previously been in contact with locations potentially willing to accept overnight residents. This February, the Downtown D.C. Business Improvement District (BID) contacted five sites to organize overflow space in case shelters reached capacity. The Church of the Epiphany agreed to offer space as a low-barrier shelter this summer with an extra 35 beds, but the BID chose not to pursue this option.

[Disclaimer: Street Sense Media rents office space from the church] Temperatures this week are expected to remain in the high-80s and mid-90s. A D.C. heat emergency will be announced if the heat index reaches 95 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Cooling options limited in DC during summer heat emergency

BY JOHN WOOLLEY, CLAUDIA LEVENS, SARAH WATSON, AND JARROD WARDWELL Editorial Interns

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he D.C. government activated its Heat Emergency Plan last week as the heat index reached as high as 105 degrees in some parts of Washington between June 27 and 30. Despite publicly advertised cooling sites, general knowledge of which locations were open to offer relief is limited.

Heat emergencies in the District are automatically declared by the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency (HSEMA) whenever the National Weather Service forecasts a local temperature above 95 degrees Fahrenheit. Upon declaration, HSEMA coordinates with the District’s Department of Human Services in order to operate 37 “facilities that allow individuals to gain respite from the heat during regular business hours” around the city, including outdoor spray parks and air-conditioned public libraries. Residents may find nearby cooling centers using the city’s interactive map found at heat.dc.gov (and printed on the next page.).

During the heat emergency, when reaching out to all of the cooling centers listed in the plan, Street Sense Media received confirmation from only 19 sites that they were aware of the emergency declaration and operating as cooling centers. Eight of the sites denied that they were cooling centers when asked, while 10 sites were unsure of their status, closed, or otherwise unable to be reached.

Seven low-barrier shelters are also included in HSEMA’s Heat Emergency Plan, separate from the cooling centers. They are listed as operating 24 hours a day for “all individuals staying in the facility.” But it is unclear whether someone newly seeking shelter could come in mid-day. When called by Street Sense Media reporters, five shelters stated that intake started at 4 p.m.

Regardless of the heat emergency, D.C.’s low-barrier shelters have been open 24/7 since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. Residents can stay throughout the day, according to Department of Human Services spokesperson Lauren Kinard. However, if residents decide to leave, shelter capacity changes and their space may be filled.

In its communications about the heat emergency, multiple D.C. agencies noted that residents should call the shelter hotline (202-399-7093) or 311 for free transportation to a cooling station or shelter. However, when Street Sense Media called the hotline, the operator said that transportation to shelters and cooling centers would begin at 6 p.m. Until then, the hotline would let callers know of the nearest shelters that have space. After 6 p.m., callers would be asked to describe their location and what they were wearing. Transportation would then be provided once the person was screened for COVID-19 symptoms, according to the hotline operator.

Colleen Cosgriff, a lead outreach team member for nonprofit Pathways to Housing D.C., described how the city’s cooling center system, while beneficial, can be less effective in practice than it appears to be on paper.

“We’re grateful that they provide a place people can go to get out of the heat, but there are some challenges with the cooling centers, especially for people who are

living outdoors,” Cosgriff said. “If you have someone who has a tent or other items, they might not feel comfortable going somewhere unknown or out of eyesight of their belongings — so it’s not a solution for everybody, unfortunately.”

Unhoused residents in particular are vulnerable to extreme heat conditions. According to a recent District survey, one in four unhoused residents has a chronic physical health condition and 37.8% are over the age of 55, making them more susceptible to heat stroke and exhaustion. Roughly half of residents experiencing homelessness also have a mental health condition, meaning heat-induced irritability or confusion could have an outsized effect on their wellbeing.

“They’re at risk of heat stroke and sunburn all day — and dehydration, which can be serious,” Cosgriff said.

“If they’re worried about losing belongings they might have all their clothing on or with them. So it’s definitely difficult, especially downtown where there are no trees and the pavement gets quite hot. That’s where people sleep so it can be quite distressing and dangerous.”

Last week’s heat emergency coincides with shelters around the District reaching their upper capacity. On June 25, the Patricia Handy Legacy site had 118 men, its maximum capacity, in residence throughout the night.

The same night, the New York Avenue Shelter reached its capacity, serving 200 men. Adam’s Place Shelter exceeded its capacity by serving 116 men, one more person than its maximum bed availability. The same three shelters remained at capacity the following night.

Unhoused residents also have less reliable access to drinking water. And medical conditions such as diabetes can be exacerbated by the heat. “We’re trying to help as many people as we can through 100-degree heat because it takes a serious toll on peoples’ bodies,” Cosgriff added.

Out of nine local residents who spoke with Street Sense Media reporters, three were unaware of the cooling centers, and six knew the sites were available. None of the residents said they had gone to a cooling center at any time recently.

Robert Thames lived in McPherson square for four days following maintenance on his apartment complex when plumbing broke. According to Thames, he was given alternative housing for two days but has not been

able to return home the last four days after pipes in his bathroom broke.

“The heat is crazy. I drink a lot of water and try to stay in the shade. There’s a church that feeds the homeless and so I get water from them. I drink five or six of the 12-ounce cups,” Thames said. “I take medication, you see. I have schizophrenia, anxiety, and depression. I have to drink a lot of water.”

Gary Wolf, who said he was homeless for 24 years before getting his own place through Pathways to Housing D.C., said he has heard about the cooling centers but is fortunate to now have air conditioning for cooling at home. He said individuals experiencing homelessness can risk encountering health issues if they don’t hydrate when temperatures are high and people are unaware of ways to cool off.

“You can die out here without hydration,” he said. “I know. I did it for 24 years. You get used to it.”

Queenie Featherstone, a Street Sense Media vendor, said temperatures that creep up past 100 degrees during the summer intensify the need to connect individuals experiencing homelessness with permanent housing. She questions how much longer it will take to make housing services more accessible for residents withstanding the unfavorable living conditions.

Residents endured the hottest day of the year in most areas of the District Wednesday, with temperatures reaching a high of 95 and feeling like 10 degrees more than that at the height of the week’s heatwave. A report released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in May shows that the hottest days in D.C. will have an average high temperature of 90 degrees as part of new climate “normals.” The District used to log peak summer temperatures of 89 degrees for 16 straight days before 2010, but the report suggests the city could spend 45 days each year under the same conditions in the near future.

“It aches my heart just to know that people sleep in the street in whatever type of whatever condition there is,” Featherstone said. “Of course this is the summer season. Temperatures start at 7, 8 o’clock in the morning at 90 degrees sometimes, so to have to live like this, it does hurt.”

Queenie Featherstone contributed reporting.

Infographic courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Map and legend courtesy of the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency via heat.dc.gov.

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Confusion mires Zoning Commission meeting about Barry Farm and residents’ right to return

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Deatrice Belt, the chair of the Barry Farm Tenants and Allies Association, points to where her friend’s home used to stand before the demolition at Barry Farm. PHOTO BY WILL SCHICK

here’s not much left of Deatrice Belt’s old neighborhood, the public housing community on Eaton Road SE known as Barry Farm. There’s the old basketball court, a surface now cracked and covered over with weeds, where people used to gather to watch intense Friday night games.

There are the old metal U.S. Postal Service boxes, some still filled to the brim with uncollected mail.

An empty patch of grass is all that remains of the house where Belt, the chair of the Barry Farm Tenants and Allies Association, grew up. Nearby, a handful of vacant buildings were saved from destruction by their designation as historic landmarks.

On July 1, the Zoning Commission met to consider approving a map amendment that would allow for denser housing development on the former Barry Farm property, located in Ward 8. The Zoning Commission ultimately did not reach a decision at the hearing, with further discussion scheduled later this month.

This was the third time in three months the commission put off action on the map amendment, one of several steps needed for Boston-based nonprofit developer Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH) to start constructing a new mixed-use development slated to replace the old public housing complex. These delays are only the latest for a plan that has been in the works in some form since 2005. Concerns over equity and fears of displacement have led to years of debate as all involved seek to shape what is ultimately built.

At last week’s hearing, Zoning Commission chair Anthony Hood urged action to move the process for redevelopment forward.

“I know it’s a map amendment. But we’re talking about peoples’ lives here,” Hood said.

As the meeting proceeded, however, the commission opted instead to direct the city’s Office of Planning to obtain more information about the developer’s plan to welcome former residents back to the property once construction is complete and to provide further clarification on the affordability of the new homes. Members also asked for input from the District’s new Office of Racial Equity. The commission is set to consider the case again on July 26 at 4 p.m.

The broad debate: What is ‘affordable’?

The majority of former residents and their advocates who testified at the hearing focused their remarks beyond the narrow zoning change; instead, they either raised core questions about the redevelopment plan or called for changes and guarantees

that the Zoning Commission’s members deemed beyond their authority in the current case.

POAH — the firm selected by the D.C. Housing Authority to handle the redevelopment — plans to build a total of 1,100 units to replace the previous 444 public housing units.

However, just over one-third of the homes in the developer’s plan would be reserved for people making less than 30% of the median family income (MFI): those units would go to people earning no more than $27,100 for an individual or somewhat higher depending on the number of children in the household.

The remaining units would be a mix of affordable housing reserved for families making up to 80% MFI — as much as $57,650 for an individual — and market-rate housing.

The D.C. Office of Planning noted that 200 of the 1,100 units would be set aside for homeownership, 160 at market rate and 40 at an “affordable” cost.

Michael Turnbull, who serves on the commission as a representative of the Architect of the Capitol, said he found it “disturbing” the proposal uses a formula that defines affordable as “up to 80% MFI.” “We really need a breakdown of what is planned or what could be considered,” Turnbull said. “I think we need a little bit more definition on this, that can really explain what that really means.”

The affordability of the units could determine the ability of former Barry Farm residents to return to the property, and whether or not they could afford to live in some of the new units. Barry Farm previously consisted of 444 public housing units, but only 380 of the new units are meant for extremely low-income households.

Members of the Zoning Commission and representatives of the Office of Planning also seemed unsure how many former Barry Farm residents have the right to return and how many are expected to do so. In 2018, the D.C. Court of Appeals remanded a 2014 zoning decision that would have allowed for a planned unit development (PUD) of 380 public housing replacement units and 1,000 mixed-income units at the property. Throughout the period between the commission’s original decision and the court ruling, the former Barry Farm residents were offered housing vouchers and were relocated to different apartment buildings across the city.

Families began moving out of Barry Farm in 2012, according to Hood, scattering all over the city and region to make way for the large construction machines that would demolish their old homes. The replacement, POAH’s website proclaims, will transform the place into a “vibrant” mixed-income community blending residential and commercial space.

But Belt, like many other former residents of Barry Farm, said she is still unsure whether she will be able to return to

the area. None of those who testified at the hearing expressed dissatisfaction with the developer’s plan to build on the property, focusing instead on the question of whether they will be welcomed back to benefit from it.

The narrow process at hand: A map amendment The map amendment under consideration on July 1 is a narrow action that defines the boundaries of a zoning classification.

When the commission reconvenes later this month, members will vote on a proposed action for both the map amendment and a corresponding text amendment, which would define the regulations for a new zone designated specifically for parts of Barry Farm.

Assuming the proposed actions are approved, the commission will provide a 30-day comment period before taking a second vote on a final action, which will allow the development to move forward.

Former Barry Farm residents at the hearing expressed confusion over what approval of the map amendment might allow.

Addressing a group of former Barry Farm residents POAH had encouraged to attend so they could speak up in support of the map amendment, the Zoning Commission’s chair at one point asked whether they supported the pending proposal.

“Can everybody just wave or yell out for me to let me know that you support the map amendment?” Hood asked.

The former residents — who had brought signs and pompoms and wore identical black T-shirts that read “No place like home” — appeared uncertain about the question and asked Hood to briefly explain the map amendment to them.

Looking out at the group of confused faces, Hood said, “Let me rephrase it like this, do you all support what we’re doing here today, which will allow you to go back home?”

This time, his question was met with cheers.

Still, procedural issues came up repeatedly as Hood and other commissioners explained the scope of the hearing and the map amendment.

“We’re not amending the text nor can we make some of the stipulations that I think you’d like us to make. Do you understand what we are considering today?” commissioner Peter May, the National Park Service designee, said in response to a call from a housing rights advocate to include “clear and specific” requirements for the development in the commission’s order.

Ari Theresa, a land use attorney who represents the Barry Farm Tenants and Allies Association, said at the hearing that

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AT A GLANCE he also did not fully understand the full potential impact of the proposed map amendment.

“It’s hard to know if I support this map amendment or not because I don’t know what’s in the text,” Theresa said, alluding to a related but separate case also under consideration by the Zoning Commission.

In a phone interview with Street Sense Media and The DC Line, Theresa explained that he believes many of the residents testifying were looking to address concerns related to a text amendment and not a map amendment.

A text amendment, he said, is where tenants would find the kinds of detail that might specify whether they would have a guaranteed right to return.

According to Theresa, “it’s not necessarily normal” to act on a map amendment prior to a text amendment that has established the parameters of development in a given zone, as in this case. They would generally proceed concurrently or in the reverse order.

“I don’t know why they decided to do it that way,” he said.

According to Theresa, what’s more relevant than the confusion over a text and map amendment is the deep desire from former Barry Farm residents to be given a guaranteed right to return. As of now, Theresa said, all they have to act on is “faith” that the developer and city will act on their word — notwithstanding a history of broken promises.

Little confidence in the right to return Belt, speaking at the hearing, echoed the sentiments of many other Barry Farm residents who participated.

“I currently live in Ward 7, now going on three years, and I want to return to Barry Farm. [But] in order to do so I need to know that I have the right to do so,” she said.

In 2016, the D.C. Housing Authority passed a resolution establishing guidelines for relocating residents from public housing slated for redevelopment, but there is disagreement over whether the policy includes a specific mechanism for enforcing a resident’s right to return after construction is complete. In the pending case, the issue is complicated as well by uncertainty over the number of impacted households.

“Are there any residents still on Barry Farm? How many?

And where is everyone else? And do they have what we put into the PUD order — the famous, infamous PUD order — the right to return?” Zoning Commission vice chair Rob Miller asked.

Jennifer Steingasser from the city’s Office of Planning responded by saying that she believed the developer, POAH, “did provide some information” about the right to return. She also added that the developer has contact information for all the former residents and remains in touch with them.

In addition to seeking clarity on how many former tenants have the right to return, the commission also directed the Office of Planning to reach out to the city’s new Office of Racial Equity for help in reviewing the plan. The new agency was created by the Racial Equity Achieves Results Act passed

by D.C. Council last year. In April, Mayor Muriel Bowser appointed Dr. Amber Hewitt to head the office and serve as the city’s first chief equity officer.

In June, the Zoning Commission directed the Office of Planning to conduct an equity analysis on the potential impact of the new zoning action in accordance with the city’s newly approved Comprehensive Plan. That report was completed before the July 1 hearing, but the updated plan — which was transmitted this week to the mayor — directs government agencies to examine the impact of policies through a racial equity lens.

Commissioners said they hoped the Office of Racial Equity could assist them in avoiding gaps in their zoning decisions on cases such as those related to the Barry Farm development.

On a recent walk around her old neighborhood, Belt reminisced about her time at Barry Farm. She had lived in the community since the late ’90s, moving into her home from another public housing apartment across the Anacostia River in Potomac Gardens.

“We had cookouts all the time, parties, everybody got together,” Belt said excitedly before coming across something in a vacant field that triggered a particular memory. “[A friend of mine] lived over here through this pathway,” Belt said. “Her house is gone now. All of ours are demolished.”

This article was co-published with The DC Line.

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Park Police plan to ‘move on’ tent residents after housed neighbors complain

James Carter (right) sitting by his tent at Burke Park at 12th St. and Massachusetts Ave. NW on July 5. He has worked as a construction worker for nearly three years, and is still experiencing homelessness. PHOTO BY ATHIYAH AZEEM

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Commissioner Alexandra Bailey of ANC2F08 speaks to residents at 12th St. and Mass. Ave. NW on July 6 to relay the U.S. Park Police’s position that “this park can be cleared at anytime.” PHOTO BY ATHIYAH AZEEM

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day after the Fourth of July, Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner 2F08 Alexandra Bailey and multiple mutual aid groups helped a tent community at Burke and Samuel Gompers Memorial Park pack up their items, in preparation for the U.S. Park Police potentially clearing the area.

This comes after a June 20 letter of complaint to Park Police from “concerned, taxpaying citizens … along the Mass Ave NW corridor in the Logan Circle/Shaw/Mt. Vernon neighborhood.”

That letter called members of the tent community “vagrants” and accused them of violating several Codes of Federal Regulation. It asks Park Police to “immediately remove” the encampments, which would go against the Center of Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID-19 guidelines.

The CDC guidelines, called “Interim Guidance on People Experiencing Unsheltered Homelessness,” advise governments to let encampments remain where they are, stating any disruption can disconnect unhoused individuals from their service providers and increase the risk of spreading infectious disease.

According to Bailey, who represents Burke Park in ANC 2F, and homeless advocacy organization Remora House D.C., National Park Service chief of staff Brian Joyner stated the department has “plans to move on the camp shortly after July 4th.”

“Park Police don’t care about breaking the law. They make the law,” said Robert Buchanan, who is considered the ‘governor’ of the community. He has been homeless since 2013 and has been at the encampment at Burke Park for five to six months. He compared the Park Police’s response to when the agency arrested eight people and cleared McPherson Square of Occupy D.C. protestors in riot gear and on horseback in 2012.

Bailey, with ANC commissioners Michelle Yan for 2F03 and Yannick Omictin for 2A01, alongside volunteers from Remora House D.C., Ward 2 Mutual Aid, Sunrise Movement D.C., and Palm Collective had been taking shifts helping

Buchanan and other tent community members for the past two days. They continue to sweep and clean the area of any trash, and help members pack essential items like clothes and important documents in bags in anticipation of leaving immediately when Park Police presence is spotted.

“These are people’s homes. Everything they have is in these tents,” Bailey said as she directs volunteers to help people pack up on July 5. That day, she believed there was a high probability of Park Police clearing the area on July 6.

“If [Park Police] just pick [the belongings] up and put them in the dumpster, they have nothing!”

Bailey herself has been helping this community for several months, asking the D.C. government to provide a public bathroom, and using her own money to pay for unhoused residents to get their birth certificates, a document required to get a housing voucher. She says Park Police have attempted

Marco Woodson stands by his tent at Burke Park on July 5. He says he is taking a stand, and has no intention of moving.

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to clear Burke and Samuel Gompers Memorial Parks in the past, and she has convinced them to give her extensions for a few months to get the community housed.

A few months, however, is still a very short time period to help people experiencing homelessness access housing in D.C. Several members of the tent community said they have been waiting for housing vouchers for several years. Buchanan was selected to receive a voucher in 2019, but only found that out seven months ago. He said his case manager asks him to periodically sign income statements and other paperwork but he still has not received the subsidy.

James Carter has been waiting for his voucher for several months now, and was told he would get it in June, then in July, and now in August.

“It’s put me in a tight situation, now that [Park Police] wants us to leave in July,” Carter said. He has been working in construction for two years and eight months, and is still experiencing homelessness.

Park Police responded to Street Sense Media on the evening of July 5 to say they had “nothing planned” for the parks for July 6. Bailey spoke with the department on the morning of July 6, and asked for a two-month extension to get people housed.

She said the department would weigh the pros and cons of the extension but would “not commit to not clearing this encampment.” During the call, Park Police told her they have the right to clear the tent communities despite CDC guidelines and that there was a plan of action to move the encampments out of the parks at an unspecified time, according to Bailey.

“I’m devastated,” she said. “It’s just a complete and utter disrespect to human life.”

Bailey and other advocates are now considering preemptively moving the camp elsewhere, or organizing protests.

Marco Woodson, a community member who decided not to move, said he’s willing to risk arrest to stay at the park after living in what he described as unsanitary conditions in 801 East Men’s Shelter.

“I’m not going anywhere, Woodson said. “If you don’t stand for anything, you gonna fall for anything.”

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OPINION

The eviction bans are ending.

Here’s how rental assistance can help people stay in their homes.

BY CAROLYN GALLAHER

Federal rental assistance is finally flowing in Maryland, but it won’t help as many tenants as it should. Two reasons explain why. First, rental assistance is coming just as other federal and state protections are being rescinded. Some may get evicted before their relief shows up. Second, the programs that distribute the money don’t do enough to protect holdover tenants — renters whose leases lapsed during the pandemic. Rental assistance may help them get caught up on their rent, but it won’t help them get leases renewed — something they’ll need if/ when eviction moratoriums end.

When the pandemic began in mid-March of 2020, millions of Americans lost their jobs. Congress responded with a variety of measures, including stimulus checks for individuals and cash for states to beef up their unemployment benefits. For their part, states redeployed funds set aside for other purposes to fill in the gaps.

Unfortunately, federal and state aid often came late (or not at all), and required navigating hastily built and inefficient online portals. The Urban Institute estimates that by January 2021, renters had collectively racked up $57 billion in unpaid rent.

Ten months after the pandemic began, Congress finally appropriated money specifically for rental relief. In January 2021, it set aside $25 billion for an Emergency Rental Assistance program. In March it appropriated an additional $21.55 billion.

Money from both pots was distributed to states and large jurisdictions within them. Maryland, for example, received $259 million, while its eight most populous counties/cities received $143 million. The funds are supposed to help tenants pay their rent, stabilizing them, and helping their landlords stay afloat.

To see how the money is distributed on the ground, let’s look at Prince George’s County, one of the Maryland counties hardest hit by the pandemic. As of June 23, Prince George’s has had the highest number of Covid-19 cases (85,47o) in the state, and the third highest number of deaths (1,593). It has also experienced higher rates of unemployment than the state as a whole (in 2021, 8.2% and 6.8% respectively).

In Prince George’s, federal rental assistance is being distributed through the county’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP). There are two ways to apply. Tenants can apply individually, or landlords can apply on their behalf. In both processes tenants can receive up to 15 months of back rent and utilities.

However, when landlords apply on behalf of tenants, the landlord also must agree to two stipulations. If the tenant has back rent from before April 2020, the landlord must agree to permanently waive thirty days of it. The landlord must also waive any self-help actions such as eviction for 90 days after receiving an ERAP payment.

Given the patchwork of assistance to date, ERAP is a safety net of last resort for most tenants. Unfortunately, the net has some gaping holes in it. Two factors explain why—the timing and structure of the program.

Although federal monies were appropriated in January

and March of 2021, states and jurisdictions within them had to stand up programs to distribute the aid. This takes time. The ERAP program was slated to go live in Maryland jurisdictions by May 17 at the latest. Some counties like Prince George’s were up and running earlier, but because of the flood of applications, it can take two months before a submitted application is even reviewed.

This is not to say Prince George’s County is doing something wrong. By all accounts they’re doing a great job. Trent Leon Lierman, who helps tenants and landlords in Prince George’s County apply for rental relief as part of his work at the non-profit CASA, told me the County’s program “got off the ground a full month and a half before Montgomery County.” He said the extra time was important because “we are all racing against a ticking time bomb.”

As Leon Lierman’s comments suggest, important deadlines loom. To date, eviction moratoriums are the most important protection tenants have had during the pandemic.

Though the specifics vary by location, most moratoriums place a temporary ban on eviction proceedings in court.

Moratoriums don’t cancel existing eviction orders, they just postpone them, buying tenants time to figure out their next steps. The first moratorium was established through the CARES Act passed in March of 2020. When that expired in July of 2020, the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) announced its own moratorium, which went into effect in September 2020. Many states, Maryland included, also created state-wide moratoriums. One study estimates that “1.55 million fewer eviction cases were filed in 2020 than in a normal year.”

This backstop, though imperfect, was abruptly called into question on May 5, when a federal judge vacated the CDC’s moratorium. Although the judge agreed to stay her ruling so the Biden administration could appeal, the CDC announced in late June that it was ending the moratorium after one final extension through July 31, making an appeal moot and alarming tenants in the process.

Maryland’s ban now has an end date as well. The state moratorium was tied to Maryland’s state of emergency, which Governor Hogan just announced will expire on July 1. Although the state’s eviction moratorium was given a 45-day grace period (until August 15), this won’t be enough time for many tenants to stabilize. If they are evicted, they’ll get even further behind.

The timing also means that landlords may soon be able to choose between receiving back rent and evicting tenants. And, as strange as it may seem, landlords may choose eviction. Some landlords, for example, may want to retaliate against activist tenants. Before the pandemic, rent strikes were uncommon, but not anymore. Tenants have also become more willing to publicly shame their landlords for refusing to set up payment plans or make basic repairs.

The pandemic has also created other incentives for landlords. Even as millions of families struggle to keep a roof over their heads, real estate has been appreciating at a rapid clip, especially for single-family homes.

Landlords of single-family homes may decide the profit

from a sale in this market is greater than what they’d get by breaking even on overdue rent.

Even landlords of multifamily properties may decide that selling or redeveloping their property for the luxury market is a better deal in the long term. Tenants in properties along the proposed Purple Line, for example, are worried their landlords will take advantage of the pandemic to clear their buildings in an effort to more easily sell or redevelop them.

The ERAP program also has limitations. Notably, it doesn’t provide robust protections for holdover tenants.

Rental leases are usually for one year at a time, so most tenants would have had their leases come up for renewal during the pandemic and many of them wouldn’t have been in a position to renew. We don’t know how many holdover tenants there are in Maryland, but we can get some sense of the scope by looking at evictions on hold over grounds (most moratoriums didn’t preclude hold over evictions). In Maryland, the number of holdover evictions in 2020 (552) increased 117% from the prior year. The total number of holdover tenants is likely much higher, not only because most leases would have come up for renewal at some point during the 15 month pandemic, but also because some landlords would have declined to evict holdover tenants on moral or practical grounds (e.g. backed up court dockets).

Like the eviction moratoriums before it, the ERAP program doesn’t protect holdover tenants. To be fair, however, it does allow tenants to provide utility bills, “attestation by the landlord,” or other documents in lieu of a lease in their application materials. However, without a standing lease, landlords are not required to renew tenants’ leases, even if they get caught up through rental assistance. Indeed, landlords who apply for rental relief on behalf of their tenants are only required to stay evictions for 90 days. Thereafter, they can evict tenants without valid leases.

Assistance programs work best when they reinforce each other. Rental assistance is providing much needed relief for thousands of tenants. But, if those same tenants can’t use that money to get caught up, and stay in place, then assistance isn’t working as it should.

A key goal of rental assistance is to stabilize families thrown into chaos by the pandemic. Delaying the chaos by a few months isn’t a solution; it’s ‘kicking the can’ down the road. Maryland should extend its eviction moratorium and establish a sunset date that matches the needs of low income tenants who want to get caught up but need time and help to do so. It should also require landlords who accept rental assistance from the state or one of its counties to renew leases for tenants who get caught up on their rent.

This column first appeared in Greater Greater Washington.

Carolyn Gallaher is a geographer and associate professor at American University.

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ART

UNCLE WILLIE:

Unexpected Singers

BY PIERRE JOHNSON Artist/Vendor

For this one, I was just sitting up thinking about scenarios where you expect one thing to happen and another group comes that catches you totally off guard but it turns out well. And I remembered this one time I did “Man of Constant Sorrow” at a karaoke night once at a place on Virginia Beach and everyone expected me to sing R&B or something.

But I did that song instead, shocked ‘em all, and it came out real good.

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ART

PHOTO BY FREDERIC JOHN

To receive a gift of love Closing the Cicada’s Chant

BY FREDERIC JOHN Artist/Vendor

Around the funky Trunk Crawled the pollid Nymphs, Splitting their Lime-green morning suits As they came— Seeking not fortune or Fame; But their own kind; Melding opposite Number In a torrid chorus of love.

Passage of weeks These lovable freaks Have left only fragile Gossamer trinkets, of Crush wing-lets...

BY FAITH PEACE Artist/Vendor

There is a singer-songwriter named Regina Spektor who is a really, truly, talented musical artist. And in one verse of her song titled “On the Radio,” she sums up the journey of receiving the gift of love into our hearts. It goes like this: “This is how it works, You are young until you are not, You love until you do not, You try until you cannot, You laugh until you cry, You cry until you laugh, And everyone must breathe until their dying breath. This is how it works, You peer inside yourself, You take the things you like, And try to love the things you took, And then you take that love you made, And stick it into someone else’s heart, Pumping someone else’s blood, And walking arm in arm, You hope it does not get harmed, But even if it does, You just do it all again!”

Attitude is a good start in the wholesome task of receiving a gift from someone else. Another good quality in receiving a gift from someone else is trust. A third thing to consider in receiving a gift is assessing if the gift is good or useful in receiving it. Be careful what you ask for in life because you just may get it after all. And then, you’ve got to live with it.

Someone once said, “Know thyself, and to your own self be true. I don’t believe in this statement because I feel that harmony in fellowship is better than being lonely individuals. Two is better than one, the more the merrier. I believe the more we get together the happier we will be. Why are we loyal only to ourselves when we should be loyal to those around us who are giving us their gifts of love, attention, and support?

Sure, we should be self confident, have a good attitude, believe in ourselves, and maintain an awareness of our mental well being. However, my personal issue is that often I am selfish and care more about getting my way than looking out for the interests of others.

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Juneteenth

Joy

BY AIDA PEERY Artist/Vendor

Black descendants built, fed, and clothed people in this country during slavey and not once got paid for their hard tedious work. And after slavery the Civil War ended and the end of slavery could finally be enforced in the South — a lot of Black people were unaware that that this had happened. Their slave owners took advantage and didn’t tell them because they couldn’t read or write.

It took two months for word to reach slaves in Texas.

It kind of makes me very angry that Black folks that are descended from slavery have to consistantly fight for Holidays. Dr. King’s holiday is a perfect example. It took 10 years plus

more for it to be a holiday. And when President Ronald Reagan signed it to be a federal holiday, it wasn’t observed until another three years later. And plenty of corporations didn’t observe it with pay at all.

Now we are in the 21st century and we get another Black federal holiday with paid wages: Juneteenth! It only took 156 years since abolition for our nation to catch up and recognize this day. My family has always observed Juneteenth with pennies and small parcels, since I was a child to adulthood. Mony of our family reunions took place during the week of June 19. I guess that old saying, “better late than never!”

BY JACKIE TURNER Artist/Vendor

Joy is an individual thing. Each of us experiences it differently.

For me, it starts with no worries about food, shelter, or discomfort. Then there are simple movements for the body to keep it healthy. Shelter means a place of my own where I feel safe, can rest, restore my energy, and exercise my mind to keep it working right.

You can’t be happy or content without joy in your life. You also can’t be happy without something that makes you smile.

So, remember: 1. Engage in the pursuit of happiness 2. The mind is a terrible thing to waste 3. The body is the temple PHOTO COURTESY OF NICK FEWINGS ON UNSPLASH.COM

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ME AND MY RECOVERY:

Hold on, help is on the way!

BY VENNIE HILL Artist/Vendor

I

have prayed and prayed for the day that I found me a real job with benefits. Well, I finally got one!

I haven’t worked, other than selling papers and writing, for 11 years. I've been here at Street Sense trying to maintain my balance — and it worked for me and my husband. But now I’m 50 years old and God has blessed me with a job with everything I’ve been looking for.

I prayed through this struggle, never thinking that I would get another chance at a real life because of my alcoholism. But I've even came a long way with that.

You know, you’ve read all about “Me and My Recovery.”

I’m not all the way together, but I'm truly doing much better with it.

I passed a youngin’ the other day out there laying on a cardboard box. He was about 30 years old. And I’m here to testify: Listen baby, where there is a will, there is a way. You have to keep trying. This COVID aint making it no easier for us.

When I was homeless and had nowhere to go, I slept in abandoned places. But I knew I wasn't going to stay that way.

I used to panhandle until I ran into this guy that said to me, “If you can panhandle, you can sell Street Sense.”

And I always wanted to write. So this paper became my

passion, my inspiration. I never gave up and now it's paying off for me.

The Lord takes you through steps because you are just not ready to begin a normal if you are not living right.

You have to start from the bottom to make it through the drama. And trust me, it's not an easy thing to do. You get tired, you get frustrated, you wanna give up. But in the end, you wanna survive. So, in order to do that, you have to keep up with it.

I just can't believe I was given another chance to get it right — and I’m scared to death! But I'm not going to give up on me or my life.

Today, I wanna live. I wanna get better and I want my life to get better. So far, it's changing for the best, all I have to do is keep up the good work. And you know how hard that can be sometimes.

Drinking isn't an option for me, I have to not do it at all.

So you know I'll be busy fighting that devil that’s going to constantly stay on my back and harass me every day.

Today I hope someone is reading this and praying for me to stay focused and be good, and that God holds on to me.

Stay safe and stay clean.

Time goes by

BY AYUB ABDUL Artist/Vendor

The darkness overtakes life.

So is the light in heart, what a day. I couldn’t write anymore.

That old feeling that can’t be shaken to endure a life of uncertainty.

But today I’m going to do what I feel is good to me and that is to be with you until eternity.

The immense ocean can’t keep us apart.

That has been written.

Once love has touched you, the distance or how far it is really doesn’t matter it can’t keep you apart.

Love stays forever and time just goes by.

Rock with you

BY DARLESHA JOYNER Artist/Vendor

I wish I could rock with you I never got a chance to just rock with my mother I never got chance to be hug or hold by you mamma hugs kisses I never got chance to pack my shit say mamma or grandma I am leaving I am grown now Grandma I miss you I miss them four course meals steak baked potatoes I cry eating from the memories of us at dinner table When you love someone you don’t treat them so bad I use sing these song every morning to grandma I had mix signals from grandma I was spoil but she use to call me ugly was meant to hurt you was saying my ways is ugly I remember my mother best friend telling me I get everything back in my kids yes indeed I do my little Minnie me does a lot like me and my twin does to

The Rose

BY KYM PARKER Artist/Vendor

This is one of the blessings she gave to us The scent is very overwhelming The beauty and power are pure It can drive us mad That’s why she blessed us all with knowledge And understanding that when she made us we all have our own power and beauty in her world

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My Sister’s Place // 202-529-5991 (24-hr hotline) mysistersplacedc.org

N Street Village // 202-939-2060 1333 N St., NW nstreetvillage.org

New York Avenue Shelter // 202-832-2359 1355-57 New York Ave., NE

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH HOTLINE Línea de salud del comportamiento

1-888-793-4357

Laundry Lavandería

Samaritan Ministry 202-722-2280 // 1516 Hamilton St., NW 202-889-7702 // 1345 U St., SE samaritanministry.org

Sasha Bruce Youthwork // 202-675-9340 741 8th St., SE sashabruce.org

So Others Might Eat (SOME) // 202-797-8806 71 O St., NW some.org

St. Luke’s Mission Center // 202-333-4949 3655 Calvert St., NW stlukesmissioncenter.org

Thrive DC // 202-737-9311 1525 Newton St., NW thrivedc.org

Unity Health Care 3020 14th St., NW // unityhealthcare.org - Healthcare for the Homeless Health Center: 202-508-0500 - Community Health Centers: 202-469-4699 1500 Galen Street SE, 1500 Galen Street SE, 1251-B Saratoga Ave NE, 1660 Columbia Road NW, 4414 Benning Road NE, 3924 Minnesota Avenue NE, 765 Kenilworth Terrace NE, 555 L Street SE, 3240 Stanton Road SE, 3020 14th Street NW, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE, 1717 Columbia Road NW, 1313 New York Avenue, NW BSMT Suite, 425 2nd Street NW, 4713 Wisconsin Avenue NW, 2100 New York Avenue NE, 2100 New York Avenue NE, 1333 N Street NW, 1355 New York Avenue NE, 828 Evarts Place, NE, 810 5th Street NW

Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless 1200 U St., NW // 202-328-5500 legalclinic.org

The Welcome Table // 202-347-2635 1317 G St., NW. epiphanydc.org/thewelcometable

Whitman-Walker Health 1701 14th St., NW // 202-745-7000 2301 MLK Jr. Ave., SE // 202-797-3567 whitman-walker.org

Patricia Handy Place for Women 202-733-5378 // 810 5th St., NW

Samaritan Inns // 202-667-8831 2523 14th St., NW samaritaninns.org

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