District of Columbia Housing Authority
Keith Pettigrew,
Executive Director
1133 North Capitol Street NE
Washington, DC
(202) 535-1000
(202) 535-2468
By The numbers
Public Housing Units 9176
Vouchers 16065
Total Units 25241
Latest News
12.2.20
Members Making News
From the District of Columbia Housing Authority's press release:
The District of Columbia Housing Authority celebrated veterans around the region and announced the awarding of 87 additional VASH, or Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing vouchers from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban...
12.2.20
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From DCist:
Students sat two to a table, separated by plexiglass and wearing face masks.
An 11-year-old girl took a math test on decimals. A 9-year-old boy solved a word problem that directed him to calculate the attendance size of the Super Bowl. His 7-year-old sister doodled in a notebook...
10.7.20
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From the District of Columbia Housing Authority's press release:
The District of Columbia Housing Authority entered into a partnership with Black Girl Health, a nationally known organization that works with companies, government entities and more to integrate strategic health programming in rural...
10.7.20
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From DCist:
Carl Goggins feels like he can’t be careful enough when it comes to the coronavirus. Apart from the danger the virus poses to him as a 67-year-old, he worries what would happen if he fell ill.
“I live by myself,” said Goggins. “Ain’t nobody gonna come to the door.”
So when a...
1.8.20
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On December 31, 2019 HUD announced more than $79 million in Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) grants to nearly 700 public housing authorities nationwide. FSS grants help public housing authorities hire service coordinators who connect public housing residents with local programs and services with the...
10.10.19
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From DCHA's newsletter:
District of Columbia Housing Authority Executive Director Tyrone Garrett unveiled a working draft of phase one of the agency’s 20-year comprehensive plan to begin addressing tackle the up to $2.5 billion in deferred maintenance and capital improvements...
9.12.19
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From Curbed DC:
One of the District’s biggest landlords has put out an ambitious plan to refinance, repair, and redevelop roughly a third of its overall portfolio. That landlord is the D.C. Housing Authority (DCHA), which owns and manages over 8,000 public housing units citywide. While it is still...
9.12.19
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From Pew Stateline:
After her daughter died from lupus, Charlene Green was left caring for her two grandchildren. But their housing situation was precarious at best: mold and mildew everywhere, ceiling caving in.
To get her landlord to make much-needed repairs in their Washington, D.C., apartment...
8.8.19
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From PRWEB:
The NHP Foundation (NHPF), The Warrenton Group (TWG) and the Washington Metropolitan CDC (WMCDC) and financing partners - Enterprise Community Partners, Citibank, Jones Lang Lasalle, the District of Columbia Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development (DMPED...
7.25.19
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From the District of Columbia Housing Authority's (DCHA) website:
The D.C. Housing Authority has released a sweeping proposal to remove about a quarter of its public housing stock from federal ownership and demolish or gut ten apartment buildings.
Under a long-awaited plan to...
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