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The District of Columbia Housing Authority had $560 million in net assets as of January 2013. More than 99 percent of DCHA's funding comes from the federal government. In 2012 and 2013, about 77 percent of the agency's total revenues were provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for HCVP and an additional 11 ...
The District of Columbia Housing Authority received 2009 stimulus funding, and allocated $11 million towards rehabilitation of Highland Dwellings. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] Wheeler Creek is a 314-unit community developed with a 1997 HOPE VI grant which replaced two earlier housing complexes, Valley Green and Skytower.
Housing Authority of the District of Columbia Potomac Gardens , known to some of its residents as " The Gardens ", is a housing project located at 1225 G Street SE, in Capitol Hill , Southeast , Washington, D.C. , thirteen blocks to the southeast of the United States Capitol building .
In April 2007, Mayor Adrian Fenty appointed Linda Argo as Director of DCRA. [1]In the summer of 2007, one housing inspector was sentenced to 60 months in prison and DCRA was the subject of an FBI investigation following a scheme to require a developer to pay for permits.
Parking minimums have shifted the cost of parking spaces from drivers to building developers, making them a hidden cost ($28,000 for non-garage, $56,000 for garage spaces, excluding the cost of land) that thereby increases the cost of rents by nearly 20%, and has contributed to America's housing affordability problem.
District of Columbia Housing Authority; L. Langston Terrace Dwellings; P. Potomac Gardens This page was last edited on 4 May 2024, at 06:52 (UTC). Text is available ...
Executive Order 9344, of May 21, 1943, established the authority as an independent agency and changed the name to National Capital Housing Authority. [2] After the war, NCHA continued as the public housing agency for the District of Columbia, attempting to provide an adequate supply of proper housing for low-income families and individuals.
Public housing appeared in Washington, D.C., after the passage of the National Housing Act in 1934. Langston Terrace Dwellings, an all-Black community with 274 units built from 1935 to 1938, was the nation's second public housing project undertaken in the country. Hilyard Robinson, a Black architect and Washington native, designed the building.