Court says DC isn’t liable for severe structural issues at a Ward 8 town house project it helped fund
Source: https://thedcline.org/, October 1, 2021
By: Will Schick
On a Friday afternoon in early September, Britney Bennett, a single mother of two children aged 6 and 13, sat on a blue couch in Davina Callahan’s living room and sighed.
“They’re not even telling us what’s going on with our homes — or what’s going to happen with our homes,” Bennett said.
In 2019, she was the last person to buy a town house at the RiverEast at Grandview condominium, a residential complex in Ward 8 built by River East at Anacostia LLC. Located in a quiet residential neighborhood atop a hill that is about a quarter-mile from the Anacostia Metro station, the red-brick houses at 1262 Talbert St. SE were built in 2017 with city funding as part of its efforts to provide affordable housing to low-income, first-time homeowners. Read more.
