Relevant reading:
An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C., by Kate Masur: https://www.uncpress.org/book/9780807872666/an-example-for-all-the-land/
Home Rule or House Rule? by Michael Fauntroy: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780761827146
A Housing Crisis, a Failed Law, and a Property Conflict: The US Urban Speculation Tax, by Katie J. Wells:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/anti.12146
Carving Out the Commons: Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C., by Amanda Huron:
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/carving-out-the-commons
Nicholson St tenant strike coverage on WAMU :
https://wamu.org/story/18/10/15/northwest-d-c-residents-go-strike-protest-decaying-buildings-rising-rent/
Irving St tenant strike coverage on Greater Greater Washington:
https://ggwash.org/view/71558/a-columbia-heights-rent-strike-highlights-abuses-tenants-face-in-dc
DC DSA's housing campaign:
https://www.thenation.com/article/democratic-socialist-campaigns-target-isnt-incumbent/