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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 ...

4. 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. Construction and Redevelopment

5. 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. 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 University ...

6. Barry Farm - Wikipedia

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   Barry Farm is a neighborhood in Southeast Washington, D.C., located east of the Anacostia River and bounded by the Southeast Freeway to the northwest, Suitland Parkway to the northeast and east, and St. Elizabeths Hospital to the south. The neighborhood was renowned as a significant post-Civil-War settlement of free Blacks and freed slaves ...

7. United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

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   History. The idea of a department of Urban Affairs was proposed in a 1957 report to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, led by New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller. The idea of a department of Housing and Urban Affairs was taken up by President John F. Kennedy, with Pennsylvania Senator and Kennedy ally Joseph S. Clark Jr. listing it as one of the top seven legislative priorities for the ...

8. New York City Housing Authority - Wikipedia

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   The New York City Housing Authority ( NYCHA) is a public development corporation which provides public housing in New York City, and is the largest public housing authority in North America. Created in 1934 as the first agency of its kind in the United States, it aims to provide decent, affordable housing for low- and moderate-income New ...

9. Housing in Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia

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   The homeless population decreased by 5.5% from 2018 to 2019, according to the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University. In 2019, there were a reported 6,521 people experiencing homelessness in Washington, D.C. [10] In 2021, Washington D.C., had the highest rate of homelessness, having 90.4 homeless persons per 10,000 people. [11]