The L’Enfant Trust’s Historic Properties Redevelopment Program is D.C.’s first nonprofit real estate developer with a primary mission of historic preservation. By focusing on very distressed properties, the Trust brings vacant buildings back to productive use, generates high-quality housing stock for the community, and takes on historic rehabilitation that would not be economically feasible for a homeowner or a for-profit developer because the rehabilitation costs exceed fair market value.

Our current rehabilitation projects will be sold to moderate-income families such as teachers, health care workers, and government employees that serve the community but are often priced out of the District’s expensive housing market.  Our work supports the efforts of neighborhood residents, community organizations, and the District to provide a wide variety of much-needed housing and to ensure that the irreplaceable fabric of historic neighborhoods in all eight wards of our nation’s capital are not lost.