Affordable housing

I was disappointed by the April 17 front-page article “Housing vouchers roil a pricey D.C. building.” The article’s characterization of an increase in tenants with housing vouchers at a Northwest D.C. apartment building as a “high-stakes…

The building's owners want to raise rents by as much as 60 percent over four years.

If you passed by the pulsating intersection of Park and 14th Streets Northwest in Columbia Heights on April 5, you would have thought there was a block party. People with smiling faces were shouting and clapping to the sounds of…

Years of neglect have led to a maintenance crisis in D.C.’s public housing. And as Congress and the Trump administration battle over large proposed cuts to the federal budget for affordable housing, the D.C. Housing Authority has asked…

As a third-grade teacher for D.C. Public Schools, Gary Hamilton wanted to be part of the community beyond his classroom.

When rich people move in, they often displace residents. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Peebles Corp.’s abrupt termination of a contract to develop city-owned land at Fifth and Eye streets NW leaves many questions, among them, whether it is still pursuing any of the affordable housing projects associated with the hotel…

Before now, the D.C. Council housing committee chair had never agreed to a sit-down interview with Housing Complex.

The District is facing an affordability crisis. Residents new and old, from all eight wards and of all races, ages and family sizes are finding it increasingly difficult to balance the costs of child care, utilities, transportation, health…

The Emory Fellowship, a United Methodist Congregation in Ward 4, has been holding their Sunday worship services in a nearby school for more than two years. It was a hardship they knowingly undertook when they decided to build affordable…

Increasingly, DC's workforce is comprised of either high-income or low-income jobs, with few middle-income jobs available. Among DC’s most common occupations, 40% are low wage jobs that do not pay enough to cover the city’s high housing…

Nearly two years ago, we got our first glimpse of Spring Flats as a redevelopment option for the historic Hebrew Home a few blocks from the Georgia Avenue-Petworth Metro station. Now, the development team has secured a land disposition…

D.C.'s commercial real estate industry could soon be forced to make a larger contribution to the city's affordable housing efforts.

In the cards: free D.C. Circulator rides for the foreseeable future and more affordable housing dollars

Mayor Muriel Bowser gave the first State of the District speech of her second term on Monday evening, where she announced several new investments in housing and transportation, including more money to the city’s affordable housing fund and…

Mayor Muriel Bowser said on Monday that she plans on increasing the city’s investment in housing in the coming year by at least $55 million, largely through a 30 percent jump in funding for D.C. Housing Production Trust Fund, the city’s…