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A world where everyone has equitable access to housing in diverse and vibrant communities.
Secures from HUD first vacant single-family property for renovation in NW Park View neighborhood.
Over five years, the Single Family Program has helped renovate and sell to low-income first-time homebuyers in the Columbia Heights, Eckington, Park View, Petworth, and Shaw neighborhoods.
As this raise-the-roof celebration shows, Mi Casa’s cause is bigger than one organization
Mi Casa receives 14 single-family homes under the DC Housing Authority’s Scattered Site Program, designed to transform vacant and abandoned properties into homes for sale to first-time, low income households.
Mi Casa receives 14 single-family homes under the DC Housing Authority’s Scattered Site Program, designed to transform vacant and abandoned properties into homes for sale to first-time, low income households.
Mi Casa qualifies as a Community Housing Development Organization and wins selection as a grantee by the DC Community Development Support Collaborative, a highly competitive source of funding for housing nonprofits.
Mi Casa begins a development project CentroNía, a 73,000 square-foot Bilingual Multicultural Learning Center in Columbia Heights.
The Tenant Purchase Program is established and Mi Casa completes renovation of a 35-unit Limited Equity Coop in Columbia Heights-Meridian Manor. In partnership with Mission First and National Housing Trust, the project combined Historic Tax Credits, Low-income Housing Tax Credits, and Section 8.
Mi Casa preserves another 11 single-family homes for low-income families across the city through its DC’s Home Again Initiative.
An office opens in Brightwood and Mi Casa completes rehab of Quest Co-op in Columbia Heights and helps tenants in Crestwood and Kara House to form cooperatives, preserving another 58 affordable units in DC.
The first new construction project is completed and Mi Casa renovates and sells a historic home in Shaw to a low-income family; the renovation is showcased on the PBS national program “This Old House.” During the same year, Mi Casa receives the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Historic Preservation: Excellence in Restoration Rehabilitation.
The Ivy City neighborhood revitalization effort spearheaded by the DC Department of Housing and Community Development is kicked off in partnership with Habitat for Humanity of DC and Manna Inc. 15 of 60 single-family homes planned for the neighborhood is also developed that same year
A $7 million HUD National Stabilization Funds is allocated for 21 & 25 Kennedy Street in Brightwood—sister co-op and rental buildings— and 30 row homes in Johnston Square, Baltimore. The renovation of eight Ivy City condos is completed in two buildings with green roofs and ten Housing Authority-owned apartments in Johnston Square, Baltimore.
The Affordable Rental Program is established with the purchase of the 20-unit Selma apartment building in Brightwood and a partnership is formed with the Latin American Youth Center/ LAYC to lease 14 of the units to LAYC clients working to become self-sufficient.
Mi Casa breaks ground on 3232 Georgia Avenue, a 69-unit new construction developed in partnership with Neighborhood Development Company/NDC. A new construction project is completed of seven single-family Energy Star certified homes in Ivy City and Mi Casa receives Baptist Award by City First Bank of DC for outstanding contribution to community development.
The first phase of the Johnston Square Homeownership project is completed, which culminated in the restoration of 30 very affordable highly energy-efficient historic row homes and Mi Casa’s first LEED for Homes project.
Mi Casa wins the Housing Association for Nonprofit Development (HAND) Award with NDC for Best Large Affordable Housing Project—3232 Georgia Avenue. A prototype for a net-zero energy home is completed as well as a renovation of Claiborne Co-op in Columbia Heights, Mi Casa’s largest co-op project.
A completion of a 27-unit new construction rental in Takoma, DC is launched as Genesis at 6925 Georgia Avenue NW and Mi Casa wins 3rd Place in Design Excellence in the DC Living Building Challenge, in partnership with Hickok Cole architects and team, for sustainable design of a site in NE DC.
The Nonprofit of the Year Award by the Washington Business Journal is awarded to Mi Casa, recognizing completion of Kara House and 5740 Colorado co-ops, which preserves another 38 affordable units for DC.
A partnership is formed with Local Initiatives Support Corporation/ LISC DC in the Elevating Equity Initiative to preserve affordable housing in the 11th Street Bridge Park impact area. Total of 969 units of affordable housing in development and service, including tenant-purchased cooperatives, single-family homes, and Mi Casa-owned rentals.
In 2018, Mi Casa solidified The Rental Program’s capacity to self-manage Mi Casa owned properties through bringing asset management and maintenance completely in-house, improving quality of service to residents with low-income.
With the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, Mi Casa worked with the community to provide rental relief through the STAY DC Program. Mi Casa also supported community in the Genesis Intergenerational Program through community-building events such as our virtual Summer Social Justice Art Class and our budding farm-to-table project with Koiner Farms.
Mi Casa completed two energy-efficient affordable homes in Historic Anacostia for two first-time homebuyers.
Mi Casa expanded work with Limited Equity Cooperatives to provide asset management post-development training, and began offering management services to Limited Equity Cooperatives. Also completed the construction of two buildings in Phase I of our Small Rental Preservation Project, a scattered site tax-credit bundle funded by DHCD, NEF, and United Bank.
In 2019, the Genesis Intergenerational Program implemented its new Good Neighboring Initiative, an effort to reshape its community engagement strategy through a resident-led process.
