Every April, the Family Enhancement Center hosts an annual fundraising campaign in recognition of Child Abuse Prevention Month. This year's event is at Modus Locus.
In October, the DC Housing Authority (DCHA) Board of Commissioners voted 5-4 against the agency commencing negotiations with their preferred co-developer for Greenleaf Gardens. By that following month, however, the Board voted 5-4 in favor, enabling the agency to move forward with the Exclusive Right to Negotiate (ERN) with that co-developer. What made the difference?
Largely, the agency’s efforts in the interim to reengage the community and its stakeholders on the status of the project and the roadmap ahead, which represented a welcome pivot from how engagement has gone up to this point. Here’s how the redevelopment process went from conceptual to doable.