Howard University, Amazon celebrate renovation of D.C. Apartment Building
December 01, 2023 by Howard University collaborates with Amazon’s Housing Equity Fund to convert 73 year-old Howard Manor into 80 affordable housing units. For dozens of years, the building housed university workers and low-income families — the last of whom were shaken out of the rent-controlled building more than five years ago amid efforts to renovate, and sell off, the crumbling structure. This is part of Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s goal to build 12,000 affordable housing units in the district by 2025.