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From the website: "[the] program provides interest-free loans and closing cost assistance to qualified applicants to purchase single family houses, condominiums, or cooperative units in the District." According to WAMU, DC's public radio network, "D.C.’s Home Purchase Assistance Program, which provides zero-interest down payment loans and closing cost assistance, distributed 343 loans in the 2019 fiscal year. Of those, 85% went to black applicants, according to Sheila Miller, deputy director for programs at D.C.’s Department of Housing and Community Development, which administers the program."