Affordable housing

At age 60, Deborah Johnson thought her child-rearing days were behind her. But when hardship struck her family, she found herself raising her grandsons in a cramped, two-bedroom apartment in southeast D.C.

Three Ward 8 projects creating over 300 new affordable units will soon move forward with financing from the District. The D.C. Department of Housing and Community Development announced Wednesday it provided $40M in loans to two projects and…

When Troy Holley was looking for a new place in the D.C. region, he found himself drowning in listings for luxury apartments. “I was kind of amazed that you couldn’t really find anything that wasn’t ‘luxury’ in the title,” says Holley. Even…

Here’s a timely lesson about supply and demand, courtesy of the District-based Urban Institute: If regional housing production remains sluggish, and tens of thousands of new residents arrive in the area within a short period due to the…

The owner of a controversial Brightwood apartment building where tenants have organized a rent strike in recent weeks is looking to sell the property. Michael Lesesne retained Marcus & Millichap's Marty Zupancic and Christian Barreiro…

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced a series of lawsuits on Wednesday targeting the owners and managers of buildings in wards 7 and 8 for issues ranging from building neglect—resulting in vermin and mold, among other conditions—to a…

It’s been almost seven months since the epic spring hearing on the DC Comprehensive Plan, a planning and land use document that guides how the city will grow for years to come. Yesterday, October 16 the DC Office of Planning (OP) released…

Residents of Northeast D.C. are trying to secure housing from the National Shrine.

When we discuss the District’s rental housing supply, those discussions usually center on units in apartment buildings, as opposed to units that are rented out by their owners. However, in the District of Columbia, units rented out by their…

Tenants could be spared from larger-than-expected rent increases under new legislation the DC Council is considering. Councilmember Anita Bonds (D-At Large) introduced a pair of bills that would update how rent increases are determined…

Antoine Pinkney hoped but didn’t know if his family’s application for an apartment would be approved when he stood near his 13-year-old granddaughter in the community playroom of the building where they hoped to move. In the room was a new…

Five members of the D.C. Council sent a letter to Mayor Muriel Bowser on Thursday afternoon, urging her to restore funding cut from 10 community-based organizations (or CBOs) that provide housing counseling and other critical services to…

Nearly a dozen local housing counseling providers and advocates for those facing housing instability received a destabilizing notice at the end of September: The Department of Housing and Community Development would reduce their funding by…