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Each year hundreds of affordable-housing units in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia are lost to encroaching development, disinvestment, and profit-driven rent increases. Hundreds more are neglected or abandoned and deteriorate, often so severely that basic functions such as heating systems and plumbing no longer work consistently. For residents, dignity becomes difficult to maintain, and crime, drug abuse, and disconnection from society become difficult to avoid.

These conditions threaten the survival of many low- and middle-income communities. CPDC seeks to acquire and redevelop housing stock in these threatened communities, understand the causes of their distress, and develop the services residents need to begin contributing again to their communities' well being. By returning housing units to livability and instituting human services, employment, youth, senior, and technology-training programs, CPDC enters into partnership with residents and owners who are taking the first steps toward turning their housing back into homes and uniting their homes into strong, secure villages.

CPDC is driven by the philosophy that combining bricks and mortar, creative finance, resident commitment and participation, and ongoing community service programs is the only way to ensure that affordable-housing communities remain a healthy part of the social and economic mainstream.