Rebuilding Together DC Alexandria

Our cornerstone program, Safe and Healthy Homes, focuses on stabilizing 25 items that the National Center for Healthy Housing found to drastically improve living conditions for a home's residents, with a particular focus on low-income persons living in older and/or substandard housing who are disproportionately affected by home hazards. This program provides free housing improvements and ensures low-income individuals and families can remain stably housed and spend their limited income on health and food.

A Home of Your Own provides first-time, low-income buyers with an opportunity to become homeowners. We acquire foreclosed properties, renovate them, and sell the units to low- and moderate-income buyers. In order to provide these properties at affordable rates to buyers, they are rehabbed by our volunteers and discounted skilled trades, then sold to an income-qualifying home buyer with greatly discounted and subsidized funding (through our partnership with the City of Alexandria).

Our Community Strong program provides improvements to common spaces used by thousands of Alexandria residents. From community parks and gardens, to schools and homeless shelters, we partner with organizations to renovate these critical community resources. Because of the projects we've completed, children now have safe areas to play, neighbors have gardens in which to grow their own food, and whole neighborhoods have been revitalized.