Coming Soon: "Forced Out"
Like many urban centers across the country, Washington has undergone an economic resurgence over the past decade, bringing new development into neighborhoods and transforming aging apartment buildings into upscale condominiums. But that celebrated renewal has come at a price: landlords have forced hundreds of families out of apartments, thwarting longstanding city laws meant to protect tenants. In an investigation that The Post will publish in the coming days, reporters Debbie Cenziper and Sarah Cohen describe how some landlords have emptied buildings with harsh and potentially illegal tactics, and how the city government has made it possible.
By The Editors |
March 7, 2008; 10:19 AM ET
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Unfortunately I believe that we are limited in what we can focus on. I think that if we proceed with the partisan sideshow of prosecuting Bush admin. officials, healthcare will get lost in the brouhaha.
The Washington Post's permanent investigative unit was set up in 1982 under Bob Woodward.
The results of the free market! Poor people aren't profitable. People with money are. So we throw the poor out on the streets! And we claim to be a Christian nation.