Thanks to a partnership with tenants under D.C.’s Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act and financing from United Bank, Amazon’s Housing Equity Fund, LISC DC, and Justice Housing Partners 2.0, the Mount Pleasant Preservation Project will redevelop 165 units into affordable housing with supportive services. (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — On October 7, 2022, Jubilee Housing closed on the acquisition of three properties … Read More
Jubilee’s Ontario Place Development Advances
DC Fair Shot February kickoff announces Mayor Muriel Bowser and Department of Housing and Community Development’s selection of Jubilee Housing’s Ontario Place development bringing 52 units of deeply affordable housing and an innovative aquaponics farm to Ward 1. WASHINGTON D.C.—On February 2nd, 2022, Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) announced that Jubilee Housing’s Ontario … Read More
Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) announced the selection of Jubilee Housing’s EucKal project to develop 50 units of deeply affordable housing in Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights
Washington, D.C.—March 29, 2021— Jubilee Housing’s EucKal project has been selected to advance to the next stage of underwriting for the Department of Housing and Community Development’s (DHCD) 2019 Consolidated RFP round. Jubilee Housing is honored to be selected by Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to help the District advance towards the goal … Read More
Jubilee Housing Board Chair Alex Orfinger Named Publisher of Washington Business Journal
Former Jubilee board member Lizzie Bebber, current board member Pat Mathews, and Board Chair Alex Orfinger. Jubilee Housing congratulates Alex Orfinger, chair of Jubilee Housing’s Board of Directors, on his return to the role of publisher and market president of the Washington Business Journal. Orfinger held this role from 1996 to 2014, before accepting a position with American City Business … Read More
Jubilee Housing Purchases 2326 – 2338 Ontario Rd, NW
CONTACT: Candace Tyler 202-559-2342 ctyler@jubileehousing.org Washington, DC – August 22, 2019 – Jubilee Housing is pleased to announce the closing of its purchase of 2326 – 2338 Ontario Rd NW. These properties will be used to build deeply affordable homes, but also approximately half of them will be set aside for men and women returning from incarceration. United Bank, Local … Read More
New Resiliency Center for the Jubilee Community at the Maycroft Apartments
MEDIA CONTACT: Candace Tyler 202-559-2342 ctyler@jubileehousing.org April 29, 2019 – Jubilee Housing and Pepco, along with New Partners Community Solar Corp and the DC Department of Energy and Environment, will launch the District’s first affordable housing resiliency center powered by solar+battery storage at an event on May 1 at 11:30 am. The event will provide a first look at … Read More
TD Charitable Foundation Awards Jubilee Housing Grant to Fund Forthcoming Justice Housing Project
MEDIA CONTACT: Candace Tyler 202-559-2342 ctyler@jubileehousing.org Washington D.C. – November 20, 2018 – Jubilee Housing was awarded $125,000 by the TD Charitable Foundation for the Housing for Everyone Grant. The grant will support the work of Jubilee Housing to build and preserve 50 units of deeply affordable housing, across two properties, in Washington, D.C. primarily targeting families making less than … Read More
United Bank Invests $270,000 in Justice Housing in the District’s Most Gentrified Neighborhoods
Washington, D.C. – United Bank showed their dedication to supporting justice housing for families in the District by investing $250,000 in Justice Housing Partners, LP (The Fund) and a $20,000 donation to help launch a new strategic alliance pilot social services initiative called Platform of Hope. The investment will help Jubilee Housing reach its goal of building 100 deeply affordable … Read More
New Jubilee Housing Acquisition Will Maintain 25 Deeply Affordable Apartments in D.C.’s High-Rent Neighborhood of Columbia Heights
CONTACT: Candace Tyler 202-559-2342 ctyler@jubileehousing.org Washington, D.C.—October 31, 2018— Jubilee Housing, Inc. closed on the purchase of 1460 Euclid Street NW, preserving deeply affordable housing in Ward 1’s high-rent Columbia Heights neighborhood. The purchase was made possible after the 1460 Unidos Tenant Association, Inc. assigned its right to purchase under the District’s Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act to Jubilee Housing, … Read More
Jubilee’s Conclusion: The D.C. Housing Production Trust Fund Works
Jubilee Housing’s experience with the District’s Housing Production Trust Fund refutes the heavy-handed conclusions of a recent audit of the fund. Its suggestion that the fund is mismanaged or limited in its usefulness is entirely incorrect. We have seen the results first hand. Over the past 15 years, Jubilee has renovated eight buildings that provide approximately 230 affordable homes, in … Read More
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