New Housing Resource Center Opens in Anacostia
This morning, D.C.’s new Housing Resource Center held its official grand opening in Anacostia, offering “a new one-stop shop for quality affordable housing services.”
The new center will be D.C.’s “central source” of resources for low and moderate-income people looking to “purchase and rehabilitate homes and prevent mortgage default and foreclosure.” There will also be computers for people to use dchousingsearch.org, according to a city press release.
The new center is the product of a collaboration between Fannie Mae and D.C.’s Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), which recently relocated its headquarters to Anacostia.
Mayor Adrian Fenty and DHCD director Leila Finucane Edmonds attended this morning’s event. If Ward 8 Councilmember Marion Barry attended, his name is conspicuously missing from the press release.
The center will also serve as an office space for the Housing Regulation Administration (HRA), which administers the District’s rental housing and condominium laws, and in-take specialists from University Legal Services (ULS), who will provide “rental counseling to assist DC residents with locating affordable and accessible housing,” according to the city press release.
More information: DHCD’s Housing Resource Center is located at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, SE and Good Hope Road, SE, accessible via bus routes along Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, SE, and less than a mile from the Anacostia Metro Station. The center’s hours of operation are Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm. Customers can contact the center by phone at (202)-442-6998.
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starting to think that is your only stock image for Anacostia…
3:20 pm
I was going to say the exact same thing. This is the best picture they have?
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Our photographer is currently searching around to see if we have some better shots. Truth of the matter is I normally use photos on Flickr that are licensed under Creative Commons. In the case of Anacostia, none of the shots are very good…Lots of images of trash in the water, bridges, and a mural presumably somewhere near Anacostia. So if you have any shots of Anacostia, please send them with your approval to print them.
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Ruth,
Good news. Thanks for the story.
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