At ONE DC, our mission is to exercise political strength to create and preserve racial and economic equity in Shaw and the District. We seek to create a community in DC that is equitable for all. We have three main organizing areas: One Right to Housing, One Right to Income, and One Right to Wellness. Under our Right to Housing Campaign, we assist tenants with organizing and strengthening their as
sociations, purchasing their residential buildings, and providing education on tenant rights. The ONE DC Black Workers Center (BWC) is a member-led space that builds racial and economic justice through popular education, direct action and worker-owned alternatives. The People’s Platform is a movement of low-income and working class DC residents of color and people who share our values and vision. We seek to organize, educate, fight for and win truly affordable housing, sustaining work, and wellness for all in DC. The state of income & housing security and wellness for DC residents is bad and only getting worse. Where the city has successfully encouraged wealthier and whiter residents to move into the city, it has destroyed welfare and social programs, attacked workers’ rights and supported a severe reduction in spending on programs for the most vulnerable. The beneficiaries of this policy are the wealthy.
