The new bill would extend rights and protections to more than 9,000 domestic workers in D.C. – including house cleaners, nannies, and home health aides.

On its own, anti-discrimination protections for unhoused people failed twice. Now, bundled with other provisions, the bill passed.

The court found that the anti-discrimination lawsuit from the office of D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine is “substantially likely to succeed.”

It’s part of the launch of the D.C. AG’s new civil rights division.