Mayor Bowser and Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. Seek Houses of Worship to Help Create Affordable Housing

(Washington, DC) – As we speak, Mayor Muriel Bowser, the Workplace of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Financial Growth (DMPED), and the Division of Housing and Group Growth (DHCD) inspired homes of worship that personal land and are engaged on or contemplating an reasonably priced housing or mixed-use improvement mission to discover what assets can be found and be taught extra in regards to the software course of and timeline by visiting the Enterprise Group Companions’ Religion Based mostly website.  
 
“Every single day, homes of worship throughout DC step as much as help our group in a lot of methods. We all know that there are faith-based companions on the market who see the necessity for protected and reasonably priced housing they usually need to assist,” mentioned Mayor Bowser. “We’re simplifying the method and making it simpler for religion companions to get the steerage and assets they should construct housing in DC.”

The City Institute estimates that faith-based establishments personal roughly 450 vacant parcels within the District and will help with producing 6,000 to 29,000 new houses. Nevertheless, regardless of their curiosity in creating reasonably priced housing, many want technical help and monetary assets to maneuver their ideas to actuality.  
“Mayor Bowser has typically mentioned ‘a citywide downside takes a citywide resolution,’ and religion based mostly establishments have stepped ahead to reply the decision on housing,” mentioned Deputy Mayor John Falcicchio. “Working with Enterprise Group Companions, we’re proud to supply technical help and grant funding to religion based mostly establishments on the earliest phases of delivering housing aligned our 36,000 houses by 2025 purpose.”  
In March 2022, DHCD introduced the number of Enterprise Group Companions, Inc. to manage the faith-based housing pilot grant program, following the discharge of the Request for Purposes in December 2021. By the initiative, Enterprise Group Companions offers homes of worship specialised coaching, technical help, peer sharing, and catalytic funding help over two years to assist them transfer from conception to development to completion of their reasonably priced housing and/or mixed-use improvement imaginative and prescient.
 
“Enterprise is worked up to work with the District as an answer companion to extend the variety of new reasonably priced residence alternatives for District residents throughout all eight wards,” mentioned Rev. Joseph Okay. Williams, Sr., Senior Program Director Enterprise Group Companions. “The 12 contributors on this FBDI cohort will enhance the quantity to 29 District homes of worship engaged in Enterprise FBDI cohorts supported by the District authorities. Enterprise seems ahead to continued collaboration with the religion group to assist the town meet the Mayor’s reasonably priced housing objectives.”

“We’ve a number of profitable examples of homes of worship contributing to the town’s reasonably priced housing through the years,” mentioned DHCD Interim Director Drew Hubbard. “With technical help, capital, and peer-to-peer exchanges, we all know a number of extra examples will likely be on the horizon.”
 
In the beginning of her second time period, Mayor Bowser set a daring purpose to ship a further 36,000 housing models – together with not less than 12,000 models of reasonably priced housing – by 2025. By additional equitably distributing these objectives throughout the District’s ten planning areas, Mayor Bowser made DC the primary jurisdiction within the nation to create reasonably priced housing objectives by neighborhood. Because of this, from January 2019 by means of October 2022, the District has produced 25,344 web new models, of which 6,442 are reasonably priced. You may monitor the District’s progress towards #36000by2025 at open.dc.gov/36000by2025.   

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