Neighborhoods /Plans
NEIGHBORHOOD INVESTMENT FUND
WIN's Neighborhoods First Investment Campaign is targeted at 12 neighborhoods across the District of Columbia where WIN has anchor member institutions and has organized leaders to work for comprehensive community revitalization. These communities encompass DC’s diverse population. WIN’s NIF targets poor, working poor, and middle-income residents.
WIN's NIF will be used to revitalize target neighborhoods across DC by improving affordable housing, neighborhood commercial centers, community facilities, day care centers, schools, and other community assets. WIN is working with DC’s Mayor Adrian Fenty to insure that the NIF produces tangible, large-scale community revitalization. Through NIF, WIN seeks to expand exponentially its past community revitalization successes, including building and selling 147 new Nehemiah town homes to first time homebuyers earning $25,000--$75,000 on the site of the former Ft. Dupont public housing project in Ward # 7.
Deanwood Heights (Ward # 7, NE) Brightwood (Ward # 4, NW)
Washington Highlands (Ward # 8, SE) Columbia Heights (Ward # 1, NW)
Brookland/Eckington (Ward # 5, NE) Anacostia (Ward # 8, SE)
H Street/NE Area (Ward # 6, NE) Shaw (Wards # 2 & 6, NW)
Logan Circle (Ward # 2, NW) Congress Heights (Ward # 8, SE)
Brookland/Upper RI Ave (Ward # 5, NE) Bellevue (Ward # 8, SE/SW)
For more information on the Neighborhood Investment Fund, including detailed maps of each NIF neighborhood, go to www.dcbiz.dc.gov.
"Brightwood - Georgia Avenue Before" "Brightwood - Georgia Avenue After"
NEIGHBORHOOD INVESTMENT PLANS:
WIN recognizes its core competency is organizing not development; therefore, WIN recruited an investment banking and development partner to help WIN implement the Neighborhood Investment Fund:The Reinvestment Fund (TRF) from Philadelphia, a nationally recognized community development financial institution (www.trfund.com). The Reinvestment Fund and WIN through the Metro Industrial Areas Foundation have a long-standing relationship in developing/building Nehemiah housing in Philadelphia, designing and passing Philadelphia's $295 Neighborhood Transformation Initiative, and creating a comprehensive neighborhood revitalization and financing plan for Baltimore's blighted Oliver neighborhood next to Johns Hopkins University where the Dawson family was brutally murdered in 2003 by drug-dealer arsonists.
WIN raised private grants to underwrite TRF's services from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, PNC Bank, F.B. Heron Foundation, Wachovia Foundation, Fannie Mae Foundation, Bank of America Foundation, Cafritz Foundation, and Chevy Chase Bank to complete revitalization plans in the first four target neighborhoods:
WIN and TRF also completed and disseminated TRF’s DC Market Value Assessment analysis to determine the appropriate revitalization strategies and tools for various neighborhoods--based on market trends/realities, thereby harnessing market forces to spark revitalization and to benefit long-time residents.
In 2008, WIN worked with DC government officials to secure community and DC Council approval of the four comprehensive NIF neighborhood revitalization plans completed by WIN and The Reinvestment Fund in 2007 (Brightwood, Columbia Heights, Deanwood Heights, and Washington Highlands). DC Council reviewed and approved the plans in Summer 2008. FY 2009 NIF funds will be used to implement the plans.
As the result of WIN’s organizing, the DC Office of Planning completed 7 other Neighborhood Investment Fund plans in 2008:
Gage-Eckington (Ward # 5, NE) Anacostia (Ward # 8, SE)
H Street/NE Area (Ward # 6, NE) Shaw (Wards # 2 & 6, NW)
Logan Circle (Ward # 2, NW) Congress Heights (Ward # 8, SE)
Brookland/Upper RI Ave (Ward # 5, NE)
-- leaving only Bellevue (Ward # 8, SE/SW) to be finished in 2009. To view these plans, go to www.planning.dc.gov.
