Of Impact in Washington, Dc
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
30 STORIES 30 YEARS OF IMPACT IN WASHINGTON, DC 30 STORIES 30 YEARS OF IMPACT IN WASHINGTON, DC This year, DC Habitat celebrates 30 outcome study of homeowners in the years of building community in DC. While Ivy City and Deanwood neighborhoods. This year, we are best known for constructing and The results of that study are presented selling affordable homes, our work to build here. Because there is so much more to equity for low and moderate-income DC every story than just numbers, we have residents also includes providing home also shared 30 stories of impact. DC Habitat repairs, offering financial education, and advocating for policies that create more All that is presented here could not have affordable housing. happened without our steady supporters who have given so generously. And, of celebrates DC Habitat has served over 1,500 course, we must recognize our past and individuals. With the largest construction present Board, staff, AmeriCorps, and pipeline in our history and plans for volunteers who have devoted so much of scaling our home repair and post- their time and energy to the mission of 30 years purchase financial education programs, DC Habitat. 30 years our impact is growing. As we look to the next 30 years, Sustained homeownership for a single we recognize the challenges that lay family is transformational: future children ahead. DC is experiencing growing of building and grandchildren are more likely to inequity among its communities. As have wealth, better health outcomes, demonstrated in this report and many and higher educational attainment. Safe, others, sustained homeownership has affordable homes together in a single wide-ranging, multi-generational benefits community. community are also transformational for that give families the opportunity to that neighborhood. Our homebuilding thrive. We will continue to build better spurs other economic development, futures, and we hope you’ll join us. combats gentrification, and keeps communities together. Sincerely, In an attempt to quantify the long-lasting benefits of homeownership, from 2012– 2018 DC Habitat underwent a long-term Susanne V. Slater President & CEO 1 VISION Our vision is a world where everyone has a decent place to live. MISSION Our mission is to reduce poverty housing and homelessness in the nation’s capital by building decent, affordable, energy-efficient homes for those in need of housing. 2 Our Impact BY THE NUMBERS The average DC Habitat 40% 1,500 homeowner saves of households report DC residents served an increase in their savings with 14% of $2,000 households reporting REACH per month on housing a significant increase in their savings 34,000 volunteers The aggregate rise in home value of 150 homes studied amounts to WEALTH Approaching ATTAINMENT $39,531,209 100 200 homes homes built or repaired rehabbed in DC 82% 90% report good, very report no medical good, or excellent cost burden in the physical health past year HEALTH 92% of DC Habitat 52% EDUCATION children have of DC Habitat graduated from homeowners 74% 95% high school, have returned of homeowners’ health has report good, very compared to 69% to school improved since moving into good, or excellent in DC overall their DC Habitat home mental health SOURCE: IMPACT EVALUATION STUDY (MATAL SOL, ERNESTO), HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON, D.C. 3 OUR HISTORY DC HABITAT’S DEVELOPMENT PIPELINE FOUNDING • The Townes at Ivy City The three-bedroom townhomes are built to EarthCraft standards and feature approximately 1,500 square feet, allowing DC Habitat to serve larger families in need of more space. • 28th Place The homes at 28th Place, built in partnership with DC’s Department of Housing and Community Development, are a mix of two and three-bedroom homes built 1988 1992 1995 Mid-1990s 2004 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 to the Enterprise Green (AND BEYOND) Communities standard. Habitat for Humanity of The Carter Work Project comes DC Habitat breaks ground In addition to the houses on Work begins at the 54-home President Barack Obama visits The Carter Work Project returns The Empowerhouse is the DC Habitat launches Impact In the Veterans Build on the Mall In January of 2014, DC Habitat Construction begins at the 60th DC Habitat breaks ground on 12 The Home Repair Program • Skyland Emerging best practices in Washington, D.C., (DC Habitat) to Washington in 1992, attracting at Skyland Park, a 34-home, Martin Luther King Street, Upsel “Northeast Parcel” development DC Habitat’s Northeast Parcel to DC. In October 2010, DC District’s first home built to the Study (see page 3 for a summary event, DC Habitat constructs starts work on the 11 homes Street Northeast project site new Ivy City homes with a $1.4 partners with the Office on Aging This development includes eight ensuring gentrification does not is founded. national attention. townhouse-style development in Street, and Benning Road, DC in the Deanwood neighborhood in recognition of the 9/11 Day of Habitat once again co-hosts passive house standard. It wins of findings), a longitudinal study frames for six homes on the of Ivy City Phase 3, including where one-bedroom condos are million contribution from Level 2 and Home Care Partners for Safe townhomes in the Park Skyland drive long-time residents out Southeast DC. Habitat completes smaller of DC in 2004. The project Service and Remembrance. The the annual Carter Work Project the affordability contest in the in collaboration with Success National Mall. This serves as the the construction of six highly rehabilitated and become home Development. at Home, a program that provides neighborhood of Ward 8, where From our inception in 1988 to Former President Jimmy Carter suggest that city development developments in scattered completed an average of ten President and First Lady Michelle and spends a week building, U.S. Department of Energy’s 2011 Measures and NeighborWorks launch of the “Homes for Vets” efficient homes certified to the to four individuals. Work on five accessibility repairs for seniors DC Habitat built 34 homes 16 years 1993, DC Habitat constructs four and former First Lady Rosalynn The project takes eight years to The project is the result of an groups need to buy parcels of locations throughout DC. homes per year. DC Habitat was Obama paint interior walls rehabilitating, and repairing Solar Decathlon competition, America to provide us with a campaign, supported by the passive house standard. That townhomes begins at 46th Street and adults with disabilities to prior. These energy-efficient homes new houses on Martin Luther Carter, along with 3,000 other complete, owing to the fact that innovative collaboration with land early, before prices begin awarded EarthCraft Platinum alongside AmeriCorps volunteers, homes alongside President and as well as the 2012 Mayor’s greater understanding of the DC Department of Housing and same year, DC Habitat completes Southeast, later completed in promote aging in place and to will be built to the Enterprise Green King Street and Upsel Street in volunteers, construct 10 new DC Habitat has to construct We construct two homes in Level 2 intended to meet the to rise, for future development on the last homes constructed in and the event spotlights the need Mrs. Carter. This event launches Sustainability Award. impact that homeownership has Community Development and construction of six new homes 2017, and on 14 condominiums at preserve affordable housing. Communities standard. the heart of Southeast. houses on Benning Road in the entire infrastructure, Columbia Heights on Holmead needs of lower median family of affordable housing. To do this, Deanwood. for affordable housing in the our first development in Ivy on communities. Through surveys, corporate partners. Three frames at 56th Place Northeast, a 28th Street Southeast, due to be Southeast DC. including telephone poles, pipes, and Oak Streets in the mid-1990s. After being displayed on the income families in need of three- Home$mart, a Post-Purchase DC Habitat acquires land and • 55th Street These first homes are built out nation’s capital. City and doubles as a kick off for interviews, and observations, are then moved to Deanwood and development that includes two completed in late 2019. sewage lines, and more, before The development is DC Habitat’s national mall, the house is bedroom units. The homes are Financial Education Program, manages a pipeline of homes The 17-unit project in Ward 7, which of concrete and brick with the DC government gifts DC Habitat World Habitat Day, a worldwide we collect data on outcomes fully constructed as homes for homes for veterans. any framing can begin. The largest yet and takes seven years disassembled and rebuilt in Habitat Young Professionals of completed in 2019. launches to provide a free that we sell at an affordable price. will be built to EarthCraft energy help of only a few very dedicated abandoned lots around O effort to highlight the need for relating to wealth attainment, local veterans and their families. development utilizes some of our to complete, ending in 2011. It Deanwood and sold to low- DC Habitat also holds our first Washington, D.C., relaunches course on successful We currently have 55 homes in efficiency standards, has given volunteers. Street in Southwest and at other stable communities and healthy education, health, and more. first AmeriCorps members, and is made possible through the income families along with DC Habitat continues to support Rainbow Build and has a float in with a new name, new leadership, homeownership, including how our development pipeline. us the opportunity to return to locations in Northeast. housing. As a result of this features multiple blitz-style builds. help of thousands of volunteers a sister unit.