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From zero to 7,000+: One DC agency charts voucher renters in its programs since 2016

June 13, 2023 by FHC 10 Comments

by Marlene Berlin More than 7,000 DC residents were housed under DC Department of Human Services (DHS) programs for the homeless as of September last year. The figure is from […]

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, Featured, High-Rise Life, Home Front, News, Van Ness

Apartment updates: The Post confirms DC overpays many landlords getting rent subsidies; Rent-stabilized buildings could see large rent hikes this year

February 21, 2023 by FHC 19 Comments

As recently as Presidents Day, 4801 Connecticut was advertising its one-bedroom apartments to prospective renters for $1,700 per month. According to a Washington Post investigation, the DC Housing Authority is […]

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, Featured, High-Rise Life, Home Front, News

Apartments in Brief: Mayor Bowser meets with Connecticut Ave. tenant leaders; Rent control database “stuck in purgatory”

June 16, 2022 by FHC 6 Comments

On May 9th, Connecticut Avenue tenant leaders wrote to Mayor Muriel Bowser to request a meeting on DC housing policies and the effects on living conditions in their apartment buildings. […]

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, Featured, High-Rise Life, Home Front, News, Van Ness

3003 Van Ness landlord Equity Residential ordered to pay $2 million for “rent hike scam”

June 2, 2022 by FHC 12 Comments

Van Ness landlord Equity Residential has been ordered to pay $2 million to the District and to residents of 3003 Van Ness for what Attorney General Karl Racine calls a […]

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, Featured, High-Rise Life, Home Front, News

At Feb. 1 virtual meeting, MPD 2D commander and DC behavioral health agency officials to speak on “uptick of complaints” in apartment buildings

January 31, 2022 by FHC

Officers from Metropolitan Police Department’s Second District and representatives of DC’s behavioral health agency will appear on a virtual panel this Tuesday. 2D CAC Chair Sarah Bever wrote in the […]

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, Around the Neighborhood, News

Upcoming events: Housing history in Cleveland Park, future development in Chevy Chase, and adding housing to your own property

January 20, 2022 by FHC

Thursday, January 20th at 7:30 p.m.: The first in a series of virtual conversations hosted by Cleveland Park Smart Growth on the neighborhood’s housing affordability challenges and potential solutions. It […]

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, Nearby News, News, Things To Do

Take a walk with DC planners on Dec. 8 or 11 to provide feedback on the Chevy Chase “small area plan”

November 30, 2021 by FHC

by Marlene Berlin The commercial area of Chevy Chase, DC was built for convenient shopping a short walk away from the neighborhood’s many single family homes, and the multi-family buildings […]

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, Chevy Chase, News

Chevy Chase DC shaping its future with Small Area Plan; Watch webinars on Ward 3 affordable housing tools and history of city planning

April 26, 2021 by FHC

by Marlene Berlin From 2014 to 2016, the DC Office of Planning worked with residents, UDC, and community and business leaders in Van Ness to come up with a framework […]

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, Chevy Chase, Featured, Nearby News, News, Real Estate

Help us count the backyard and basement apartments in Ward 3

March 30, 2021 by FHC

To spare you the long introduction: We are doing a survey! Do you have an ADU? In the process of adding one? We’re trying to get a count of how […]

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, Featured, Home Front, News, Real Estate

Affordable housing in Ward 3: How do we get there from here? Our q&a with ANC 3F commissioner David Cristeal

October 11, 2020 by FHC

Get ready to hear more about housing affordability in Ward 3 in the coming years. That’s in part because of Mayor Muriel Bowser’s 2019 Housing Initiative, which set a goal […]

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, ANC 3F, Home Front, News

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