Hundreds Lined Up for Affordable Housing

We got a handful of emails this morning from Columbia Heights residents, asking about a long line they encountered along 14th Street NW at Harvard Street. It seems that a number of people had even camped out in the line the night before. NBC4 went to the scene this morning and reported that it was a line made of returning applicants for a number of open spaces in the Columbia Heights Village Apartments, the subsidized apartment building at that corner. DCist went by around 1 p.m., but by that time, the line was long gone. Is the line indicative of increased demand for public housing due to the state of the local economy? Sure feels like it, although District public housing pretty much always maintains a healthy waiting list.