Washington Inner-­City Self Help (WISH) was a community organization founded in 1978 by an association of 40 churches of various denominations that advocated for the increasing number of poor and elderly people in the District of Columbia. Although the organization focused on affordable housing projects within Washington, D.C., over the course of more than three decades their projects included advocacy and organizing on a variety of social justice causes in the country and abroad. This organization helped form limited-equity cooperative properties in D.C., including the Nehemiah Cooperative and Capital View. It also initiated the foundation of and worked closely with the New Columbia Community Land Trust. WISH was known throughout the community for its mobilization of tenants, and its strong stances against gentrification and substandard living conditions in D.C. The organization ended in 2003, but its work continues through the projects it started, the work of Empower D.C. and other local social justice groups.