DC Housing Authority

The DC government is making progress in housing people with its record number of vouchers, but people familiar with the process say the wait is still far too long. DC began fiscal year 2022 with 2,400 new Permanent Supportive…

DC’s public housing agency is set to have a busy 2023.  Responding to criticism in a stinging U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) assessment made public in October, the DC Council installed a temporary DC Housing…

People using housing vouchers in DC spent this past summer in limbo. In the spring, the DC Housing Authority (DCHA) deliberated changing the maximum value of all 20,000 vouchers the agency administers. If implemented, the change could have…

Don’t expect me to mince words here. The DC government and, thus, the entire city, particularly low-income residents, have been drowning in high-cost mediocrity and breathtaking incompetence for decades. Some of the adverse consequences of…

It just got a little bit easier for people experiencing homelessness to get a housing voucher. After a months-long fight by advocates, the DC Housing Authority (DCHA) will now let voucher applicants move into housing without requiring a…

DC’s voucher waitlist is 37,000 people long, but the city government is only planning to fund 20 new vouchers for the residents on it.

Local housing advocates thought they had prevailed in their long-standing push to allow people seeking housing vouchers to self-certify their eligibility, but they’re crying foul after the DC Housing Authority (DCHA) distributed guidance…

The board in charge of the District’s public housing has renewed a promise to prevent the displacement of residents during the planned redevelopment of their neighborhood in Southwest DC. Despite the public commitment, residents of…

The DC Housing Authority finally has a new resident commissioner — Janet Parker. DCHA, the agency that manages public housing and various rental subsidies in the District, has spent the last six months trying to organize elections…

Housing advocates across the District are demanding that the DC Housing Authority (DCHA) reform the way it administers housing vouchers so people experiencing homelessness can be matched sooner with a place to live. On Feb. 9, DCHA’s Board…

Summary: With a backlog of over 70,000 households, the demand for public housing is steadily growing in the city amid a precipitous rise in housing costs. Meanwhile, seniors and people with disabilities already in D.C. public housing…

There’s not much left of Deatrice Belt’s old neighborhood, the public housing community on Eaton Road SE known as Barry Farm. There’s the old basketball court, a surface now cracked and covered over with weeds, where people used to gather…

“The pace of deterioration is accelerating,” DC Housing Authority director Tyrone Garrett recently warned the DC Council during an oversight hearing. With 41 properties, 8,000 units and more than 20,000 residents, the DCHA is the largest…

An attorney testifies that her client’s children have visible bites from insects and rodents. A mother tries to justify why she had to grab a gun to save her son’s life. Another openly weeps when she discloses that her rental voucher…

When faced with troublesome executive-branch or independent agencies, the DC Council’s solution has become nauseatingly predictable. Members, separately and collectively, propose a new agency, office or commission as an antidote for the…

At a recent celebration, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson personally congratulated the most recent class of seven new homeowners for successfully completing the DC Housing Authority’s little-known Home…

There’s a major battle being waged between Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey DeWitt and the DC Council that impacts DC’s balance and division of power. Let’s not forget, however, that the outcome will have major repercussions for the health…