income inequality and poverty with her pathway to the middle class program community activist skyla pondexter more lives in public housing in ward eight the poorest in the district she says bowzer is program has been a fig leaf for giveaways to private developers and corporations i believe that this income gap. this all that way out she's doing it back just phasing us out i believe she thinks happy to have to just get rid of all of the income folks and take a bit of all of this and get the most of us back to the law going to japan south of the city or have innocently say gentrification has devastated d.c.'s african-american population in thousand one. in seventy one african-americans accounted for seventy one percent of washington's population struggling to cope with the increasing cost of living and lack of employment opportunities twenty sixteen the percentage of african-americans in the district fell below fifty percent but moore says local investment can benefit the community if you give people the resources and help them wrap around then we can really start to close this gap and that wip