WASHINGTON, D.C.—The D.C. Council’s Committee on Housing on Thursday approved a measure – The Fair Share Housing Targets Act of 2025 – to establish clear, housing production targets for the District as a whole and in individual areas of the city – especially for affordable housing units, an important signal of the District’s ambitions and an invitation for new investment. 

In May 2019, the District set a goal of producing 36,000 new homes and 12,000 affordable units by the year 2025, making D.C. a leader as the first major U.S. city to establish housing production and affordable housing targets on a hyper-local level. D.C. met that 36,000-unit target ahead of schedule, but there has not been any renewed effort since then. Some areas of the District exceeded the targets that were set, but others did not – and have not in the past, either. 

“It’s time for new ambitious targets,” Nadeau said. “We won’t achieve our housing goals if we don’t meet housing targets in every part of the District. And if we are ever going to get past the racist legacy of redlining, we have to make sure we are building housing everywhere.” 

Under Nadeau’s bill, the Mayor would set targets every five years and establish a process for assessing and remedying barriers to housing production in areas that don’t meet the targets. 

The bill will now go to the full Council for a full vote, most likely in early November. 

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