Momentum is building among D.C. lawmakers and advocates to make another hefty investment in repairing and redeveloping the D.C. Housing Authority’s most troubled properties, which could make fiscal year 2022 the third year in a row the agency has scored substantial city funding for that work.
Some D.C. Council members have asked for $60 million for badly needed “transformation” of some of the city’s public housing communities, up from the $50 million DCHA received in the 2021 budget for that purpose.
Should the $60 million come through, that would be a major upgrade from the $15 million lawmakers had planned to set aside in FY 2022 as part of last year’s budget process. That could help the agency substantially expand its plans for rehabilitating these properties or redeveloping them entirely and generate a series of increasingly lucrative contracts for D.C. developers and contractors in the process.
