Jubilee Housing Inc. is buying up more property in Adams Morgan, with plans to convert a church into temporary housing for formerly incarcerated people.
The D.C. nonprofit on Friday bought the King Emmanuel Baptist Church at 1721 Kalorama Road NW for $3.6 million, using a private investment fund it created last year to combat the District’s affordable housing crisis. The property will be Jubilee’s third acquisition on the same block, and the fourth real estate transaction powered by the group’s Justice Housing Partners Fund. Alex Orfinger, executive vice president of Washington Business Journal parent company American City Business Journals and a former publisher of WBJ, is a Jubilee board member and led fundraising efforts for the fund.
The group hopes to use the church on Kalorama to house up to 20 people at a time as they work to re-enter society, said Jim Knight, Jubilee’s president and CEO. He’s hoping it will be heavily subsidized so that residents can stay there for…
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