Since the DC Habitat affiliate's founding in 1988, we have built and rehabilitated more than 200 homes in Washington, D. C. and abroad, utilizing the help of 2,000 to 5,000 volunteers each year. We currently have 44 new homes in our construction pipeline and we plan to substantially increase the number of D. C. families we serve to 450 families through homeownership opportunities, critical home repair, and counseling by 2020.

As we work to more than double the families we have served since our founding the next four years, we're taking a multi-faceted strategy that will enable us to scale our impact. These include increasing new home construction, creating a post-purchase training program to provide homeowners with ongoing, multi-year support in financial management and home maintenance, increasing the number of seniors and veterans that we serve, and scaling our home repair program. We've been an innovator in the affordable housing sector; we built the first super energy-efficient Passive Houses in Washington, D. C. and we've developed innovative partnerships with local developers that help us to build more family homes in a city where studio apartments and one-bedroom units dominate the market but units for families can be more challenging to find. We're working to build new partnerships that allow us to build more homes than ever for local families.

We explore, invent, and execute every financial tool we can to provide the financing necessary to accomplish our mission. DC Habitat writes, presents, and administers grant proposals for funding support from foundations both locally and nationally. In addition, DC Habitat has a robust corporate sponsorship program and runs employee charitable fund drives. We also receive in-kind gifts of materials from vendors and pro bono expertise from professionals such as lawyers and accountants. DC Habitat receives land grants and funds from the DC Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to produce affordable housing units, and the District of Columbia Housing Authority helps us to identify potential partner families and acquire land. DC Habitat works with Manna, Mi Casa, the Greater Washington Urban League, Housing Counseling Services, University Legal Services, Latino Economic Development Corporation, City First Enterprise, and City First Bank, among others. We partner with 140 affordable housing organizations through our involvement in the Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Community Development (CNHED). DC Habitat administers revolving loan funds to provide below market rate loans to assist families in the purchase of their first home. As we expand DC Habitat's Home Repair Program, we hope to establish another fund dedicated to providing below-market loans for home repairs. We're also fortunate to have a dedicated and highly skilled team of staff members and board members who are leaders in their fields and ensure that we have the support and resources we need to meet our goals. We also work closely with thousands of volunteers each year who reduce our construction costs and help us to build faster and more efficiently.

Our organization has carefully mapped out our goals through 2020. We've determined how many families we need to serve and homes we need to build each year to hit our goal, the milestones we need to reach to stay on track, and the resources we need to make it possible. Our staff and Board of Directors closely monitor our progress toward our aim of serving 450 families by 2020 and will make adjustments as needed to ensure that we stay on track.

Since the DC Habitat affiliate's founding in 1988, we have built and rehabilitated more than 200 homes in Washington, D. C. and abroad, utilizing the help of 2,000 to 5,000 volunteers each year. Most recently, in FY 2015, we finished an additional six-unit development at 56th Place NE, near our previously-completed 54-home development in Deanwood. These 3-bedroom, 1. 5 bathroom houses are now all home to Habitat families. In addition to our developments in Deanwood, notable past accomplishments include building a 34-townhouse development in Park Skyland in Southeast D. C. In Ivy City, and in the summer of 2012, we won the Mayor's Sustainability Award for our work on the "Empowerhouse," the District's first net-zero Passive House. Originally constructed for the 2011 Solar Decathlon, the townhouse duplex is now home to two Habitat families in the Deanwood community. In FY 2016, DC Habitat completed construction on 11 homes for the third phase of our development in the Ivy City community. This includes six homes built to the highly energy-efficient Passive House standard and five built to the EarthCraft standard. Our homeowners benefit from these energy-efficient designs through increased air quality and significant savings in energy costs. Many of the homes are also equipped with solar panels to decrease energy costs and make the homes even more affordable for Habitat families. We have worked diligently to make a lasting impact in the Ivy City neighborhood. Of the nearly 500 housing units located in Ivy City, collectively with our partners we have built or rehabilitated 60 homes, contributing to the stabilization and revitalization of this community and we are currently building 12 new homes in the neighborhood.