The Washington Post: Report finds pockets of child poverty among emerging D.C. neighborhoods By Candace Wheeler
In the District’s Edgewood neighborhood, abandoned warehouses, barbed-wire fences and the swooping lines of graffiti on buildings are visible just across the street from a bustling shopping center and new luxury apartments. Development cropping up in the adjacent, gentrifying community of Brentwood has done little to change the plight of many of Edgewood’s longtime residents, especially children, according to a report prepared for release Thursday by DC Kids Count, a non-profit research and advocacy group. Read more.
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