DALLAS: A large new development in Eckington will go up with fewer “deeply affordable” units than developers planned thanks to an unexpected objection from DC’s Department of Housing and Community Development. The agency didn’t want to have units doled out outside its existing system, even at the expense of some affordability.
At Eckington Yards, a 695-unit mixed-use development that will rise on a three-acre site stretching from Eckington Place NE to Harry Thomas Way NE in Eckington, developers JBG and Boundary wanted to offer more deeply affordable units—units for people who make well under the Area Median Income (AMI)—than what DHCD requires…..