On April 13, 2017, Fair Housing Project Staff Attorney Catherine Cone participated in a gentrification and affordable housing panel sponsored by the National Lawyers Guild Washington College of Law’s Chapter. The panel discussed the history and context of gentrification in the District and its effect on displacement and homelessness of families. In particular, Catherine discussed how fair housing provides a lens through which to view and challenge discriminatory practices that often arise when properties are redeveloping. She and co-panelists Dominic Moulden, Resource Organizer for ONE DC, and Professor Michael Diamond, Director of the Harrison Institute for Housing and Community Development at the Law Center at Georgetown Law, also offered tools to preserve affordable housing and combat discriminatory practices.

The panel can be accessed here.