{"id":1967,"date":"2026-01-30T13:27:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/poverty-journal\/?page_id=1967"},"modified":"2026-01-30T13:27:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:27:32","slug":"unsafe-unaffordable-and-unjust-why-d-c-must-defend-tenants-right-to-a-safe-home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/poverty-journal\/in-print\/volume-33-issue-i-fall-2025\/unsafe-unaffordable-and-unjust-why-d-c-must-defend-tenants-right-to-a-safe-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsafe, Unaffordable, and Unjust: Why D.C. Must Defend Tenants&#8217; Right to a Safe Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine living in an apartment with floor-to-ceiling mold, mice scurrying about while you try to sleep, and a horde of cockroaches darting back and forth each time you turn on the lights. Despite your repeated complaints to the landlord and the landlord\u2019s legal obligations to make the repairs, the deplorable conditions remain. For four Washington, D.C. residents represented by Rising for Justice (RFJ),<sup>1<\/sup> this is their daily reality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/poverty-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2026\/01\/33.1-Community-Voices.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"cx_external_link\"><span class=\"cx_external_hyperlink\">Click Here to Continue Reading &#8220;Unsafe, Unaffordable, and Unjust: Why D.C. Must Defend Tenants&#8217; Right to a Safe Home&#8221;<\/span><span class=\"visually_hide\">(This link opens in a new tab)<\/span><span class=\"cx_external_icon\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine living in an apartment with floor-to-ceiling mold, mice scurrying about while you try to sleep, and a horde of cockroaches darting back and forth each time you turn on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13848,"featured_media":0,"parent":1934,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-1967","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/poverty-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/poverty-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/poverty-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/poverty-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/poverty-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/poverty-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1969,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/poverty-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1967\/revisions\/1969"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/poverty-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/poverty-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}