As of ten minutes ago, there was one more condo left at the 153-unit Kenyon Square development in Columbia Heights: A two-bedroom, two-bathroom spot priced at $549,000. In an effort to get the last few units off the books, the property's management had been discounting by as much as $50,000. And so ends a two-year [...]

MANNA Up: Jim Dickerson and Frank Demarais say the city’s stiffing affordable condo owners.

Tanya Davis spends most of her hours on the couch, watching cable television shows depicting graphic surgeries and other invasive medical procedures.
It’s not that she’s lost her job or depressed. She’s bed-ridden, waiting for her baby—“Ella” is the chosen name—to be born, [...]

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In mid-June, Angela Peltzer moved into her brand-new condo at 14th Street and Florida Avenue NW with views of the Capitol, the Washington Monument, and possibly the Anacostia River.
“I think I can see the new stadium,” she says.
The purchase is a coup [...]