Washington Highlands is a large residential area located in SE (Ward 8). It
is bounded on three sides by Oxon Run Park and on the fourh side by Southern
Avenue. It is known to be the poorest and least developed section of Washington. It
is known to have been composed of low-income and public housing apartment
complexes, including the Highland Dwelling public housing complex. Being that it is
the poorest residential area, it is also among the most violent neighborhoods in DC.
Roughly about one third of the city’s 181 homicides in 2007 occurred there.
The neighborhood captured media attention in January 2008, when city
officials founded that a resident by the name Banita Jacks had been living for months
in her house along with the bodies of her four murdered children in a bad state of
decomposition. With that said, there is nothing nice to say about this
neighborhood and it is a residence where people of low –income live and is
perhaps owned by the government. The Washington Highlands Community can be
metro accessible, the W2 bus.
