The collection consists of the organizational records of Washington Inner-­City Self Help (WISH) from 1978 to 2005 and includes financial paperwork, correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings, flyers, event brochures, photographs, video, and professional documents. Most of the materials are in English with a few materials in Spanish.

The collection consists of 585 house history folders of homes in the District of Columbia. The folders contain housing permit records, historical information about the house and its prior owners. The Collection has a digital copy of basic data of the house histories on an external hard drive.