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2. District of Columbia Housing Authority - Wikipedia

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   The District of Columbia Housing Authority is an independent government agency whose mission is to provide affordable housing to extremely low- through moderate-income households, foster sustainable communities, and cultivate opportunities for residents to improve their lives throughout the eight wards of Washington, D.C. [1] One of the ...

3. Potomac Gardens - Wikipedia

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   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. The property is owned by the District of Columbia Housing Authority, and its 352-units are divided into family ...

4. Capitol View (Washington, D.C.) - Wikipedia

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   The Clay Terrace public housing project, long one of the city's most violent, [20] became a particular focus of police efforts. A no-questions-asked illegal gun depository program was implemented that recovered scores of weapons. Public housing residents with criminal records (especially drug or handgun crimes) were tracked and evicted.

5. Arthur Capper/Carrollsburg - Wikipedia

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   Arthur Capper/Carrollsburg was a housing project on Capitol Hill in Southeast Washington, D.C., bounded by Virginia Avenue, M Street, 2nd Street, and 5th Street, SE. Arthur Capper was known to the residents as "Capers." [1] First built in 1958, the project consisted of the Arthur Capper Senior, Arthur Capper Family, and Carrollsburg Family ...

6. Benning Terrace - Wikipedia

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   Benning Terrace, also known as "Simple City," "Simp", and "Baby Vietnam", [4] earned a reputation in the 1990s as the center of violent gang activity. [5] In 1997, after a rash of murders, the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise (CNE), along with the Alliance of Concerned Men and the District of Columbia Housing Authority Office of Public Safety, came together to bring gang warring to ...

7. Section 8 (housing) - Wikipedia

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   The main Section 8 program involves the voucher program. A voucher may be either "project-based"—where its use is limited to a specific apartment complex (public housing agencies (PHAs) may reserve up to 20% of its vouchers as such [9])—or "tenant-based", where the tenant is free to choose a unit in the private sector, is not limited to specific complexes, and may reside anywhere in the ...