State lawmakers will debate paid family and medical leave, a $6 billion dollar budget surplus, and expanded access to abortion.

Landlords in Montgomery County will be barred from raising rents above a certain percentage through May 2022.

The measure is named after two-year-old Ezechiel Nguemezi, who died in Oct. 2020 after he fell out of a third floor window in a Takoma Park apartment building. 

The legal risks may outweigh the benefits, experts say.

“With gentrification, you know a lot of people who have left, but you don’t know what it’s like to fight to stay.”

Around 150 people congregated in Columbia Heights on Saturday to elect new leaders for a District-wide union that will bring the city’s many housing activists, tenant leaders, and renters into an umbrella organization.

“The opposite ruling would have had the potential to completely gut [TOPA] and render it really close to meaningless,” says one of their attorneys.