WIN Annual Reports June 2018 Midyear Report | Page 16

Homestead Apartments - Completed
In the heart of the Brightwood Park
neighborhood in Ward 4, sits a 55 unit building
comprised of 6 efficiencies, 47 one bedroom
apartments and 2 two bedroom apartments.
UrbanMatters worked with residents to complete
a TOPA purchase of the building on behalf of
tenants that will preserve those 55 units of
affordable housing right off of Georgia Avenue.
A critical component of the revitalization plan is
the free resident support services programming:
Health Prevention & Daily Life Programming
Workshops for Healthy Eating and Adult
Financial Literacy training. The development
team has partnered with DC’s Latino Economic
Development Center to provide these program
services to the residents. In September of
2016 this project broke ground, and it is now
completed and 100% occupied.
Short Term Family Housing I
Broke Ground on 3 sites!
WIN organized vigorously in the lead up to the
2014 election for DC General Family shelter to
be replaced with smaller more dignified facilities
and ultimately closed. May 2016 legislation was
passed identifying 6 sites for replacement
facilities and allocating nearly $100 Million in
capital funding. In 2017 WIN partnered with
Good Faith Communities Coalition to organize
Ward 3 residents and 14 local congregations to
sign and send letters of support to their ANC
representatives and testify at community
meetings and hearings. On April 5th 2017 the
Board of Zoning Adjustment approved the short-
term living facilities in wards 3 and 5. Despite a
legal appeal surrounding the site in ward 3, all
indications are now that DC General will finally
be closed and replaced. In 2017, 3 of the 6 DC
General replacement facilities broke ground!
Providence Place | Funding Committed!
UrbanMatters​, an affordable housing
developer established in part by WIN, is
celebrating progress on a 99-unit affordable
housing development in Ward 7. Providence
Place, which will be built on land of the
Progressive National Baptist Convention
Headquarters, received zoning approval from
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