To advance the District of Columbia’s housing priorities, the agency invests in affordable housing and neighborhood development, which provides pathways for DC residents to transform their lives.
Relationship to the State Government: Instrumentality of D.C. Government
Current Staff Size: 45
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1979
DCHFA is established

1982
DCHFA financed its first affordable multifamily housing group of developments

1995
the first Housing Finance Agencies to be approved by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for its Risk Sharing Program

2005
Issued more than $76 million in bonds to help rehabilitate and modernize 6,858 public housing units

2008
Reached $1 billion mark in multifamily affordable housing finance

2016
DC Open Doors celebrated funding $200 million in mortgage loans, and launched its Mortgage Credit Certificate Program.
Total Financing Provided
Renters Served Since 1979
Homeowners Served Since 2013
Signature Program
Housing Investment Platform
HIP is a single family investment program designed to create more affordable housing throughout the District. DCHFA partners with developers to provide affordability in exchange for a lower preferred return hurdle, to produce for sale home for people in the 60-120% median income range.
New Homeowners Created (+ 100 new homes in the pipeline): 32
Future Focus

Christopher E. Donald
Executive Director & CEO
“Our Agency will continue to focus on social justice and economic justice through the production of healthy, affordable and beautiful housing utilizing the provision of the most efficient capital in the marketplace. We believe that all people should be housed with dignity and with our partners both public and private, this is possible!”