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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 ...
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 .
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.
A parking ticket issued in Washington, D.C., in 2011 Checker giving a parking ticket, Seattle Washington, 1960. In the United States, most traffic laws are codified in a variety of state, county and municipal laws or ordinances, with most minor violations classified as infractions, civil charges or criminal charges. The classification of the ...
In 2001, D.C. received a $34.9 million Hope VI grant to redevelop the 23-acre Capper/Carrollsburg public housing project as a mixed-income community. [6] The New York Times noted that officials promised that the "redevelopment of the Arthur Capper and Carrollsburg projects" was "the first in the country to promise replacement of all low-income ...
The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801 is an organic act enacted by Congress under Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution that formally placed the District of Columbia under the control of Congress and organized the unincorporated territory within the District into two counties: Washington County to the north and east of ...
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.
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.