HUD Approves Amending Regulatory Agreement for the Temple Courts Site

Officials at the US Department for Housing and Urban Development (HUD) agreed to amend the regulatory agreement for the land that the former Temple Courts building use to occupy.  The former Temple Courts housing complex was located on North Capitol Street between K and  L streets NW. There were 211 affordable units in the HUD financed housing development that was demolished in 2008. As a condition of the HUD financing, a regulatory agreement required that 211 replacement units be constructed on the specific lot where the former Temple Courts building was located.  District officials argued that the units should be allowed to be scattered throughout the proposed Northwest One redevelopment sites to promote the mixed-income tenet of the New Communities Initiative and reduce concentration of low-income housing units.  In October 2013, HUD approved amending the regulatory agreement to allow developing the replacement units on additional parcels.