DCHA (DC Housing Authority ) Update 08/15/22

Mayor Bowser Announces Funding For 11 New Affordable Housing Projects

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced 11 more projects that will receive funding from the Housing Production Trust Fund from the Department of Housing and Community Development. 

This announcement follows the mayor's pledge last year to invest some half-billion dollars to fund affordable housing in D.C. Along with the ten projects were already selected in February, the announcement of eleven more projects will bring the total investment this year to nearly $300 million of the $445 million that the D.C. Council set aside in the upcoming year’s budget.

The newly announced projects include:

  • 145 Kennedy Street – 35 new affordable housing units, including 8 units of deeply affordable housing.
  • McMillan Senior Apartments – 85 new affordable housing units, including 24 units of deeply affordable housing.
  • 1109 Congress Street  – 69 new deeply affordable housing units.
  • Parcel B Buzzard’s Point Senior – 110 new affordable housing units with a majority targeting the District’s lowest income households.  
  • Deanwood Station  – 15 affordable homeownership opportunities as a part of the Mayor’s Black Homeownership Strike Force.
  • Benning Road Metro Affordable – 109 new affordable housing units, including 22 units of deeply affordable housing
  • Ridgecrest Phase 2  – 64 new units of affordable housing while preserving another 64 units of existing affordable housing.
  • Congress Heights Metro Residential  – 179  new affordable housing units, including 10 units of deeply affordable housing.
  • 950 Eastern Avenue NE  – 56 new affordable housing units, including 13 units of deeply affordable housing. 
  • Harvard Court Apartments – 109 new affordable housing units, including 22 deeply affordable units.
  • Belmont Phase 2 – 124 new units of affordable housing while preserving another 100 units of existing affordable housing.

The projects will include the construction of new housing units, including projects never released before, as well as work to preserve existing affordable homes.

The city’s announcement said that more than 80% of the homes produced will be available to households making less than 50% of the median family income, or $71,750 for a family of four. 

Each project will have a different timeline for construction; with most projects begun or beginning this year. Construction is slated to be completed after 18-24 months.

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