City Paper: Rent Hikes May Force Longtime Residents Out of a Columbia Heights Building
The building's owners want to raise rents by as much as 60 percent over four years.
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UrbanTurf: DC Prepares for Another Vacant Property Auction
As part of DC's Department of Housing and Community Development's (DHCD) commitment to clear its backlog of vacant properties, the agency is preparing for another online auction.
Washington Post: D.C. housed the homeless in upscale apartments. It hasn’t gone as planned.
The SWAT team, the overdose, the complaints of pot smoke in the air and feces in the stairwell — it would be hard to pinpoint a moment when things took a turn for the worse at Sedgwick Gardens, a stately apartment building in Northwest…
Prior to implementing a decade-old law with new powers to preserve affordable housing, DC government…
While there is more rental housing in the District of Columbia today than a decade ago, the share of units available for less than $1,000 per month has shrunk from 69 percent to 34 percent. As the DC government works to preserve and grow…
Mayor Bowser Hosts Fifth Annual March Madness Featuring Senator Scott and Congresswoman Norton to…
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March 26, 2019
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Mayor Bowser Hosts Fifth Annual March Madness Featuring Senator Scott and Congresswoman Norton to Highlight Opportunities for All
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Mayor Bowser Makes Historic $138 Million Investment in Affordable Housing
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LaToya Foster (EOM)
Gwendolyn Cofield (DHCD)
Mayor Bowser Makes Historic $138 Million Investment in Affordable Housing
Eleven Projects to Produce or Preserve Affordable Housing…
Mayor Bowser Delivers New Affordable Housing, Community Amenities at The Beacon Center in Ward 4
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March 13, 2019
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LaToya Foster (EOM)
Gwendolyn Cofield (DHCD)
Mayor Bowser Delivers New Affordable Housing, Community Amenities at The Beacon Center in Ward 4
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UrbanTurf: DC is Exploring Income Averaging
As the District's Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) drafts an update to its Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP) for low-income housing tax credits (LIHTC), a newly-available tool could be on the table.
Bisnow: D.C.’s Wealthiest Neighborhoods Have Built Little Affordable Housing, But That Could…
D.C. has built thousands of new affordable units in recent years, but many wealthy neighborhoods in Northwest have failed to deliver any meaningful contribution to the city's housing stock.
Washington Post: D.C. lost eligibility for federal lead grant after failing to spend $3 million
District officials failed to spend $3 million in federal lead remediation grants, rendering the city ineligible for additional money and forcing D.C. to shut down a program to protect poor children from lead poisoning.
Washington Post: Northwest D.C. residents criticize oversight of rent voucher programs
Complaints from residents of a Northwest Washington apartment building about lax oversight of a voucher program for poor tenants are drawing scrutiny from city officials, who in recent weeks have taken steps to allay their concerns.
City Paper: D.C. Chronically Failed to Spend Federal Funds to Remediate Lead Paint Hazards, HUD Says
In doing so it lost out on the only dedicated subsidy for remediating lead paint hazards for low-income tenants with small children.
WUSA9: ‘We’re ready to take control of our destiny:’ Salvadoran families, others…
Tenants of three Northwest apartment buildings will get access to nearly $11M in funding to become their own landlords as part of the District's first Preservation Fund disbursement.
Mayor Bowser Announces First Investment from Preservation Fund to Keep Housing Affordable for Over…
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December 20, 2018
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LaToya Foster (EOM)
Gwendolyn Cofield (DHCD)
Mayor Bowser Announces First Investment from Preservation Fund to Keep Housing Affordable for Over 180 Residents
One of the District’s Fund…
UrbanTurf: DC Could Begin Using DOPA As Early As February
Almost a year ago, the District Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) published preliminary rules on enacting the District Opportunity to Purchase Act (DOPA). Now, weeks after the final rules were published, there is…
BisNow: D.C. Provides $51M To Finance 3 Ward 8 Affordable Housing Projects
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…
jonetta rose barras: Housing doublespeak from Mayor Bowser
Ward 1 DC Council member Brianne Nadeau pushed back against Mayor Muriel Bowser and the DC Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) last week, after learning that some funds previously cut from housing counseling programs had…
Washington Post: The District’s HPAP has been helping buyers for 40 years own their first home
In 1986, Juanda Smith was saving money toward her dream of becoming a homeowner. It wasn’t enough. “I saw a condo I liked, and I was so fortunate that the sales person there encouraged me to contact the Manna/FLOC nonprofit,” says Smith,…
City Paper: Five Councilmembers Urge Mayor to Restore Funding Cut from Housing Counseling Providers
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…
City Paper: DHCD Makes Across-the-Board Budget Cuts to Housing Counseling Providers
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…