The $50 million housing assistance program will help struggling homeowners with mortgage payments and other housing related costs.

D.C.’s Single Family Residential Rehabilitation Program is designed to keep low-income residents in their houses. But some homeowners watch damages get worse. Others die waiting for fixes.

High housing costs have put homeownership increasingly out of reach in a number of local suburbs.

The Office of the Attorney General is hosting a forum at 6:30 p.m. tonight on potential house buying pitfalls.