Shawnee, Tami and Bobby represent three of the 13 families in the Towns at Ivy City development — and 41 in the larger Ivy City neighborhood — that have benefited from an ongoing partnership between D.C.’s Department of Housing and Community Development and Habitat for Humanity of Washington, D.C….

“We don’t have the opportunity to grow outward like a lot of other cities with suburbs because we’re fairly constrained and small,” explains Gene Bulmash, manager of the inclusionary zoning program at DHCD.

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