Many current DC residents are concerned that they will be pushed out as Mayor Anthony Williams actively recruits 100,000 new residents to the District.

Longtime resident of the historic U Street Corridor Renford Grandison and his son have lost their home as constrution crews and bulldozers pave the way for high-rise luxury condominuiums. In late October, police officers, were looking for a suspect in a nearby armed robbery. They searched the home of Grandison, known as Rennie, on Florida Avenue, near Cardozo senior high school, without a warrant. The police returned a few days later with a warrant, and threw Rennie's personal items into trash bins after getting the fire department to condemn the building. Audio