Articles of Incorporation

of the

Chatham Court Tenants' Association, Inc.

WE the undersigned natural persons, all twenty-one years of age or more, acting as incorporators of a corporation under the Non-Profit Corporation Act (D.C. Code, 1981 Eidtion, Title 29, Chapter 5), adopt the following Articles of Incorporation:

FIRST: The name of the corporation is Chatham Court Tenants Association, Inc.

SECOND: The period of duration of the corporation is perpetual.

THIRD: The purposes for which the corporation is organized are as follows: for educational, research, civic, including but not limited to the activities and affairs of organizing tenants residing in the Chatham Court Apartments, testifying at public and civic forums, bringing legal actions, publishing newsletters, periodicals, books, newspapers, and other materials, taking and holding title to property, and for any other lawful purpose that may be determined by the Board of Directors of the corporation.

FOURTH: The corporation shall have members.

FIFTH: The corporation shall have one class of members designated as residential tenants of Chatham Court Apartments. Such members shall be entitled to vote. Qualifications and other rights of such members shall be provided in the By-Laws as adopted by the Board of Directors and as amended from time to time by vote of the members.

SIXTH: Except for the initial Board of Directors, whose names are set forth in these Articles of Incorporation, the Board of Directors shall be elected or appointed as provided in the By-Laws.

SEVENTH: Provisions for the regulation of the internal affairs of the corporation, including provisions for distribution of assets on dissolution or final liquidation, shall be provided for in the By-Laws.

EIGHTH: The address of the initial registered office of the corporation is 1707 Columbia Road, N.W., Apartment 314, Washington, DC 20009-2819. The name of the initial registered agent of the corporation at such address is Wallace Dickson.

NINTH: The number of members constituting the initial Board of Directors of the corporation is four (4), and the names and addresses of the persons who are to serve as initial directors until the first annual meeting, or until their successors are elected or appointed and shall qualify, are:

Kala Ladenheim, Apartment 419, 1707 Columbia Road, N.W.
Washington, DC 20009

Tyrone Harris, Apartment 110, 1707 Columbia Road, N.W.
Washington, DC 20009

Wallace Dickson, Apartment 314, 1707 Columbia Road, N.W.
Washington, DC 20009

Imani Haidara, Apartment 319, 1707 Columbia Road, N.W.
Washington, DC 20009

TENTH: The name and address of each of the incorporators is:

Kala Ladenheim, Apartment 419, 1707 Columbia Road, N.W.
Washington, DC 20009

Tyrone Harris, Apartment 110, 1707 Columbia Road, N.W.
Washington, DC 20009

Wallace Dickson, Apartment 314, 1707 Columbia Road, N.W.
Washington, DC 20009

SIGNED and DATED this 1^st day of July, 1997, in the City of Washington, the District of Columbia:

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Kala Ladenheim
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Tyrone Harris
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Wallace Dickson

NOTARY PUBLIC

I, ________________________________________________, a Notary Public in and for the City of Washington, District of Columbia, do hereby certify that on the 16^th day of June, 1997, personally appeared before me Kala Ladenheim, Tyrone Harris, and Wallace Dickson, all residents of 1707 Columbia Road, N.W., Washington, DC, who signed the foregoing document as incorporators; and have sworn that the statements contained therein are true and correct.

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Notary Public

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