Wesley Housing

About Wesley Housing

Founded in 1974, Wesley Housing is a leading nonprofit, affordable rental housing developer that builds and preserves permanent housing options for low- and moderate-income persons across the Washington, DC metro area. Our mission is to build up the lives our most vulnerable community members by creating and operating healthy, supportive, stable, affordable housing communities. We do this by offering free support services and education to every resident to guide them on their paths to self-sufficiency. As such, our core lines of business fall under real estate development, asset management, property management, and resident services.

Since inception, Wesley’s work has impacted more than 25,000 lives by developing or acquiring 2,800 units in the District and Virginia across 38 properties. Today, we own 26 communities in the region, of which 22 we manage and operate. Of those, 15 are multi-family apartment buildings, five (5) are communities for older adults, and three (2) are for individuals with disabilities and/or chronic disease–totaling 3,100+ residents.

Recent Accomplishments: This year, we were named Nonprofit Developer of the Year 2022 by the Housing Association of Nonprofit Developers (HAND) for the third time (previously in 2017 & 2006). In 2021, Affordable Housing Finance named Wesley Housing in its “Top 50 Affordable Housing Developers of 2020,” one of only nine non-profits to make the list. In 2020, the Virginia Governor’s Housing Conference named our Housing Stability Initiative “Best Housing Program or Service.” In 2019, the Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future recognized Wesley Housing as a Certified Organization for Resident Engagement & Services (CORES), a program designed to identify service organizations that provide resident services provision in line with a robust coordination system. We also received the SatisFacts’ Resident Superior Award for the seventh year in a row because of our residents’ exceptional rating of quality of life.