District of Columbia Housing Authority
Keith Pettigrew,
Executive Director
300 7th Street SW
Washington, DC
(202) 535-1000
(202) 535-2468
By The numbers
Public Housing Units 9176
Vouchers 16065
Total Units 25241
Latest News
6.28.19
Members Making News
In a new video, District of Columbia Housing Authority (DCHA) Executive Director Tyrone Garrett and DCHA staff reiterate the housing authority’s mission of improving the health, wellbeing, success, and daily lives of DCHA residents. Based on “This Is Where We Stand,” a poem by Raquel Brown,...
5.23.19
In The News
NPR’s May 16 story, which also aired May 22 on NPR’s Morning Edition, “Trump Administration Wants To Cut Funding For Public Housing Repairs,” featuring District of Columbia Housing Authority Executive Director Tyrone Garrett and CLPHA Executive Director Sunia Zaterman, underscores the need to...
5.8.19
Members Making News
From the District of Columbia Housing Authority's e-newsletter:
The District of Columbia Housing Authority, Mayor Muriel Bowser, D.C. Department of Housing and Community Development, D.C. Housing Finance Agency and development partners celebrated the end of the first phase of the massive...
4.11.19
Awards/Grants, Members Making News
From the District of Columbia Housing Authority's e-newsletter:
For the first time in nearly a decade, the District of Columbia Housing Authority was awarded $717,000 in a ROSS grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. This funding will be project specific.
The...
3.29.19
Members Making News
From DCHA's e-Newsletter:
The mayor, city partners, and church partners cut the ribbon at The Beacon Center, a mixed-use development in the Brightwood neighborhood of Ward 4 that includes 99 affordable housing units— as well as an array of community services—targeted at low- to moderate-...
3.29.19
Members Making News, Awards/Grants
From DCHA's e-Newsletter:
The District of Columbia Housing Authority was awarded $17.6 million in Housing Production Trust Funds to construct the first 166 units at Kenilworth Courts in Ward 7. The three-phased project is expected to deliver a total of 532 new affordable units to the...
3.8.19
Members Making News
From the District of Columbia Housing Authority's e-newsletter:
District of Columbia Housing Authority Executive Director Tyrone Garrett announced that he will present a Comprehensive Portfolio Repositioning Plan within 60-days. Garrett said the strategy will describe how the agency will...
3.8.19
Members Making News
From the Distirct of Columbia Housing Authority's e-newsletter:
The District of Columbia Housing Authority's Section 3 program was highlighted by the regional director and field office director of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Mid-Atlantic Region.
Regional Director Joseph...
3.6.19
Members Making News
Congressional staff who focus on housing policy for key committees, Senators, and Representatives heard about the mission, work, and challenges of public housing authorities during a bus tour of several District of Columbia Housing Authority properties on Tuesday morning. The tour, hosted by DCHA...
2.22.19
On March 5, CLPHA, the District of Columbia Housing Authority, and the Congressional Public Housing Caucus will offer members of Congress and their staff a personal look at public and affordable housing in the nation’s capital during a bus tour of several DCHA communities.
The tour will be a...
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