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Street façade of the new Permanent Supportive Housing project in Ward 8.

Washingtonian Residential Design Award there can be no doubt that DC is at the forefront among U.S.
Permanent Supportive Housing cities in commissioning both short- and long-term housing
projects aimed at helping individuals and families transition
Washington, DC
from homelessness to stable shelter. The program prioritizes
Shinberg.Levinas Architects architectural quality, and several of the completed projects have
received local design awards.
+ LEO A DALY The most recent of these is the Permanent Supportive Housing
Structural Engineer: Silman complex in Ward 8, designed by Shinberg.Levinas Architects
MEP Engineer: MC Engineers LLC + LEO A DALY. The project entailed the wholesale renovation
General Contractor: Winmar Construction of an existing dilapidated building on 12th Street, SE, in the
Washington Highlands neighborhood between Oxon Run Park
Over the past few years, the DC government has embarked on and the DC-Maryland border. The building was stripped to its
an ambitious initiative to address homelessness as one aspect structural frame and then expanded by roughly 50% to reach the
of the broader housing affordability crisis. Inevitably, perhaps, maximum square footage allowable under current zoning codes.
the specifics of this initiative have been controversial, but
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