10/04/2024
Dear Friends of the Home,
We have exciting news to share with you! The Abraham and Laura Lisner Home for Aged Women (aka Lisner-Louise-Dickson-Hurt Home) is being awarded a Vision Award for 2024, on October 17th, by the Committee of 100 on the Federal City, a non-profit organization founded in 1923 and dedicated to responsible planning and development in Washington, D.C. The Committee has recognized the Home for its outstanding collaboration with public and private sources and the community to expand its long-standing mission of caring for low-and moderate-income seniors. When a July 2020 flood rendered a portion of its historic assisted living building in Friendship Heights unhabitable, the Home, along with its architect Wiencek and Associates, developed a strategy to restore and improve this facility. The plan will bring this building into the 21st century, featuring 45 handicapped-accessible private assisted living units that will enable individuals to comfortably age in place; full renovation is scheduled for completion by mid-December 2024. The Home also partnered with Urban Atlantic, a local private developer, to build a new 93-unit, 100% affordable independent senior living apartment building on its campus. To achieve this, a $26.6 million construction loan was secured from the DC Housing Production Trust Fund – a first for affordable housing in Ward 3 – along with financing from private lenders. Pursuing a “good neighbor” policy, the Home, Wiencek and Associates, and Urban Atlantic worked closely with its ANC and adjoining residential neighbors in designing the new building in order to minimize neighborhood disruption and maintain local character. By April of 2022, the Zoning Commission had approved the plan, and the new construction project is now well underway; its anticipated completion date is the summer of 2025.
