Washington Post
Brendi Bluitt didn’t think she fit the typical profile of someone needing public assistance to pay for housing. She had a good job in public relations, earning $80,000 a year.
But she qualified for D.C.’s home-purchase-assistance program, and she ended up getting an interest-free loan of more than $84,000. She had to contribute only $1,000 from her savings to buy her $376,000 condo.
“People maybe would think of someone else who maybe doesn’t look like me or isn’t in the same career field as me” receiving assistance, said Bluitt, who is also an advisory neighborhood commissioner in her Petworth neighborhood. “Honestly, without the program, it probably would have been a very long time before I was able to plant roots and purchase a home here.”
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