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Rendering showing the north and west façades of the Ward 6 Short-Term
Family Housing facility, as seen from Delaware Avenue, SW. The steps
and ramp at center lead to the main residential facility entrance.

Home for a While
Home for a While

A New Short-Term Family Housing

Building for Ward 6

by Ronald O’Rourke
A few blocks northeast of the Waterfront-SEU Metro Avenue, SW, promises to be as good-looking from the
station, construction is under way on a new high-rise street as many local market-rate apartment buildings, but
residential building designed by Studio Twenty Seven in fact will be a new short-term family housing (STFH)
Architecture and LEO A DALY, an architecture, facility for Ward 6.
engineering, planning, interior design, and program- The project forms part of Mayor Muriel Bowser’s
management firm. The structure, located at 850 Delaware initiative to close the much-criticized STFH facility at DC

74 HOME FOR A WHILE All images courtesy of Studio Twenty Seven Architecture