Housing

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,…

DC's Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA) is designed to help tenants in multi-family apartment building stay put if their landlord decides to sell the property. So why is TOPA not working for tenants in several buildings put up for…

After years of neglect, four historic homes in Anacostia are about to see new life as a local historic preservation nonprofit finalizes plans for their restoration. The L'Enfant Trust acquired the homes this spring, after months of back and…

A beleaguered Brookland apartment complex and the local regulatory agency tasked with monitoring it are the focus of a new report published Monday morning by the Office of the D.C. Auditor. In the report, a team from ODCA examined how…

As the twenty locales on Amazon's shortlist for a second headquarters wait with bated breath for news of a selection, many have speculated how the arrival of the economic behemoth would affect the housing market. Now, a new HotPads analysis…

Less than one percent of the District’s recent affordable housing—whether in projects that have opened, are being built, or involve older buildings that are being preserved—exists in Ward 3, the municipal division that covers upper…

Last year, UrbanTurf reported on the concept of the "Missing Middle", a class of housing types which bridge the gap between single-family houses and mid-rise multi-family buildings. As explained at an Urban Land Institute panel, "Missing…

Most conventional debates over gentrification in DC position the process as one that replaces long-time black residents with newer, wealthier white residents. Given the context, this framing makes sense: DC has a well-established black…

The housing cooperative model is an attractive proposition for many in fast-developing Washington, which is experiencing one of the worst shortages in affordable housing in the country

The charges that Phyllis Black outlines against her landlord in a sworn affidavit are sweeping and shocking. But if there’s one thing she wants him to know, it’s this: She isn’t leaving her home. In the nearly two years she’s lived at 711…

The inspection was part of a city-wide review of the 56 DC Housing Authority properties that about 20,000 D.C. residents call home.

On a hot, hazy Saturday afternoon, members of the Barry Farm Tenants and Allies Association gathered for their monthly meeting outdoors, in the shade of a large oak tree, across from the place many of them used to call home. Their community…

Chanelle Mattocks asked what any mother would in her situation: “Who do we hold responsible?” Before her family moved into a subsidized home in Washington that had been approved by city inspectors, she had a typical 3-year-old. Then, she…