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The crowd outside the Spring Flats development in Petworth, where Mayor Bowser announced a $400 million investment in the Housing Production Trust Fund. Image by the author.
Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Monday that the budget she will propose to DC Council this week will include $400 million for the Housing Production Trust Fund (HPTF), DC’s primary program for building affordable housing.
The investment, which is four times what the mayor’s office has historically allocated for HPTF each year, will allow DC to produce 3,000 more affordable homes, Bowser said.
$150 million of the funds will be in Bowser’s supplemental Fiscal Year 2021 budget, with another $250 million in FY2022. Bowser announced that the budget will also include Local Rent Supplement Program vouchers. That will ensure that half of the homes built using FY22 dollars are affordable for residents making less than 30% of the Median Family Income, she said.