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While the Anacostia River and its community have known their share of economic struggle and environmental troubles, there is hope on the horizon for residents as a strong interest has emerged toward reversing the area’s decline.
Major redevelopment activities are planned, underway, or completed to revitalize substantial sections of Anacostia. The work necessary to complete a makeover into a community of home ownership and rental opportunities is the community of Frederick Douglas and Stanton Dwellings. The severely distressed Valley Green/Skytower housing development, reopened in October 2000 as Wheeler Creek. This new community is ideally located to serve as a gateway to the nation’s Capital.
DCHA submitted another Hope VI application to the Department of Urban Housing and Development to redevelop Arthur Capper Family/Senior and Carrollsburg Dwellings. The $35 million grant was awarded on October 19, 2001.
For DCHA Anacostia, a region representing 19 public housing developments, our mission is simple and direct: to provide quality, safe, affordable housing of choice to our residents and to be a distinctive and successful member of a premier organization – the District of Columbia Housing Authority. Our commitment is to the residents we serve – to understand and to respond sensitively and respectfully to their needs and expectations.
We look forward to feeding the current of hope flowing through the Anacostia community and promise to have a profound effect on the quality of life and economic self-sufficiency of its residents. We are collaboratively working with the residents, the employees and the communities in DCHA Anacostia to truly make this a Region of Hope and Realization.