Washington, D.C. has some of the strongest tenant protection laws in the country. On paper, those laws make it difficult for a landlord to evict without cause, keep a security deposit without justification, or ignore serious maintenance problems. In practice, those protections can be a lifeline for renters, but only if you know they exist...Read More

  You Have a Right to Expect Safety If you’ve ever slipped on a wet floor in an apartment hallway, been injured by malfunctioning equipment in a public space, or found yourself attacked in a dimly lit parking garage, you already know how fast things can go wrong. What you might not know is that...Read More

You Did Everything Right — And They Still Let It Happen You own a scooter or a motorcycle — something practical, efficient, maybe even essential for getting to work. You live in a building that won’t let you bring it inside. Leaving it on the street isn’t an option — not in this city. So,...Read More