The Urban Village Community Center Association (UVCA), founded in 2003, is dedicated to educating, training, and empowering the low-income residents of Urban Village Apartments and the surrounding community through the provision of community activities and services, such as after school programs, computer instruction, adult literacy programs, and English as a Second Language.  UVCA is comprised, in part, of residents from the tenant association who joined together to preserve the Urban Village Apartment community in the face of growing owner “opt outs” from Section 8 contracts in Washington, D.C. UVCA works closely with its neighboring tenant associations, the staff of Urban Village Apartments, and Somerset Development Company to stabilize and enrich the community and to provide direct services to the residents.

Urban Village Apartments is a 72-unit garden style apartment community in Columbia Heights. As a part of the renovations completed in 2003, Somerset Development Company built a new multi-purpose room, a computer lab, outdoor community space, and new tenant services offices to assist in resident services programming.

We seek to educate and empower the community through the following programs:

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