Are They Listening Now?

Southwest Voice DC ended publication in fall 2024. Its website and social media have been archived for future research and exhibition. Started in September 2019, Southwest Voice DC was the only neighborhood-based social and racial justice newspaper in Washington, DC. It sought to bring attention and action to multiple levels of harm against individuals and the Southwest community, largely perpetuated by the District of Columbia government - its agencies, elected officials, and unity with private, monied interests. The developer class and the District government victimized the community through flooding the housing market with expensive luxury housing that worsened affordability, environmental racism, ghettoization, agency policy violence, strengthening apartheid adjacency, lax oversight, violations of the law, and economic exploitation. The policy inattention and disdain for affected people's lives were unconscionable.