The building has become a flash point in the debate over gentrification and displacement in Shaw
, the church agreed several times to make repairs to various parts of the building, but, D.C. Superior Court Judge Juliet McKenna said Thursday, those repairs have not addressed some of the biggest threats to health and safety in Foster House, including mold and water intrusion issues and a broken fire alarm system that has resulted in the need to put 24-hour fire monitors in place to keep an eye on the structure.
New Bethel Baptist Church, which began renting newly constructed apartments to Foster House tenants in 1973, has maintained that the building is too decrepit to fix. Instead, the church has pointed to plans to build a new building offering mixed income housing — some market rate units and some affordable — in place of the Foster House apartments. That plan has been stalled by years of lawsuits.The church has for more than a year argued in D.C.
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