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A Fine Pair
A Fine Pair

Split Development Provides

Both Market-Rate and

Affordable Housing

by Ronald O’Rourke

Courtyard of the Sonnet.
Photo © Anice Hoachlander
Depending on whom you ask, housing affordability in Washington Project: The Sonnet/Portner Flats,
is either a serious and growing problem or a crisis that has already 1441 U Street/1440 V Street, NW, Washington, DC
arrived, with many home buyers and renters being driven outside
the city in search of affordable options. Washington’s population Architects/Interior Architects: Eric Colbert & Associates, PC
is growing more slowly than it was a few years ago, and difficulties Landscape Architects: ParkerRodriguez Inc.
in finding affordable housing are thought to be one of the causes. Structural Engineers: SK&A Structural Engineers
Effectively addressing the housing affordability problem will MEP Engineers: Jordan & Skala Engineers
Civil Engineers: VIKA
likely involve many individual efforts across the city. Regulatory General Contractor: Clark Construction Group
actions and creative financing arrangements will play important

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