Housing sit-in makes point.

• Position: On the Line

Washington, D.C.

Members of the homeless activist group Mayday DC occupied the Franklin School in downtown Washington on August 9 to protest the shortage of low income housing. "Over the past ten years, the number of children living in poverty in the District has increased 29 percent," Jamie Lougher, a Mayday DC organizer, told the Independent Media Center. "Meanwhile, the city has done nothing to create and preserve affordable housing as...