Oshuteiya Campbell
Host: Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc.
Sponsor: The Florida Bar Foundation
Brook provided representation to tenants’ associations and community based organizations working with tenants of properties timing out of subsidy in gentrifying Washignton, D.C. neighborhoods, to preserve affordability and ensure compliance with fair housing, relocation, and landlord/tenant laws.
Because Washington, D.C.’s housing market is so strong, owners of subsidized housing projects in gentrifying neighborhoods want to convert these properties to market rates making them unaffordable for existing tenants who are largely African Americans. The District of Columbia’s 2012 Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing recognized that if affordable housing is not preserved and expanded in gentrifying neighborhoods that there is a very real threat these neighborhoods will “re-segregate… as virtually all white.” This project sought to use fair housing laws to prevent the displacement of low-income tenants of color from formerly subsidized properties.
In the past two years, Brook has:
Now that the Fellowship is complete, Brook plans to:
My Impact: A Conversation with 2016 Equal Justice Works Fellow Brook Hill
Host: Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc.
Sponsor: The Florida Bar Foundation
Host: Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Inc.
Sponsor: Eversheds Sutherland, The Home Depot
Host: Housing Justice Center
Sponsor: AmeriCorps VISTA, Housing Justice Center
Host: Bread for the City
Sponsor: AmeriCorps VISTA, Bread for the City