This Before & After affordable historic workforce housing restoration project was done in Anacostia, Washington, DC, by the non-profit L’Enfant Trust’s Historic Properties Redevelopment Program. Their mission is historic preservation, focusing on very distressed properties.
The restored houses are sold to moderate-income families such as teachers, health care workers, and government employees that serve the community but are often priced out of the District’s expensive housing market. You can read more about this organization’s impressive work on their website: https://lenfant.org/
Historic preservation is sometimes portrayed as something only the wealthy benefit from, gentrifying neighborhoods and pushing out poor residents, often people of color. While there is some basis for such claims, that is far from the whole story. In-depth research by Place Economics and others has documented that historic districts often contain higher concentrations of affordable housing than other areas of a community. It’s not all about architecturally significant mansions.
“Restoring Your Historic House, The Comprehensive Guide for Homeowners” is filled with information to help historic house owners restore their houses.
Signed and personalized copies of the award-winning and bestselling 720-page hardcover book are available directly from the author at YourHistoricHouse.com/shop/ and in the shop on this page.
Our shop also carries select preservation and restoration titles by other authors.
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