Home Again: Revitalizing Communities One Home at a Time
The Home Again Program’s goal is to transform vacant and abandoned residential properties into single-family homeownership opportunities for residents. By increasing homeownership and eliminating blight, Home Again helps to stabilize neighborhoods and contribute to local economic sustainability.
Vacant and abandoned properties are eyesores in the District’s neighborhoods. These properties contribute to blight, crime, and neighborhood instability. To address this challenge, Home Again has two goals:
- 1) Encourage property owners to rehabilitate and/or occupy their vacant and abandoned residential property; and
- 2) Acquire, dispose of, and rehabilitate properties when owners fail to maintain them.
Currently, Home Again focuses on neighborhoods with high concentrations of vacant and abandoned residential property. The program is currently focusing on the following areas: Columbia Heights, Ivy City/Trinidad, Deanwood, Bellevue, Congress Heights and Washington Highlands.
Please call DHCD at (202) 442-7200 to learn more about properties being developed under the Home Again program.
Achievements (as of the 4th Quarter FY 2007)
- Since its inception, Home Again has held 218 properties in its inventory. It is projected that Home Again will facilitate the development of more than 300 new housing units.
- To date, 47 units have been developed and sold to homebuyers. 32 of those units were affordable to persons at or below 60% of the Area Median Income. 85 properties have been awarded to developers.
To learn more, explore these links:
- Home Again in Action
- Home Again Q3 Report
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