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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. 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 ...

5. DC housing crisis looms as rent payments fall behind: 'People ...

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   D.C. Councilmember Robert White, chairman of the Council's Housing Committee, expressed concern. "One fear is that people could be put on the street if housing projects close down," White said ...

6. Langston Terrace Dwellings - Wikipedia

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   Langston Terrace was the first federally funded housing project in Washington, D.C., and one of the first four in the United States. [2] It was part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ’s Public Works Administration and was named in honor of John Mercer Langston , a 19th-century American abolitionist and attorney who founded Howard ...

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

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   The Capitol View neighborhood saw several large, poorly maintained public housing projects demolished in the 2010s. The government of the District of Columbia partnered with private real estate developers to construct the Capitol Gateway mixed-use development between 2000 and 2010.