A long career helping others

By Judith Salkin
Posted on January 11, 2016

Maureen Forman’s parents were university music professors and activists dedicated to social justice. They taught her solid principals about respecting the lives of others, and to do all she could to help those in need of compassion and assistance. “It was inculcated in me from a very early age to take care others,” says Forman, executive director of Jewish Family... READ MORE

Losing their long-time homes

By Ben Nuckols
Posted on January 04, 2016

In the rapidly gentrifying nation’s capital, real estate investors aren’t the only ones flipping houses for profit. The city’s public housing authority is getting in on the action — moving older tenants out of homes where they’ve lived for decades, renovating them, and selling them to wealthy buyers.The renovations, at a cost of more than $300,000 per home,... READ MORE