“There’s more demand for this program than there is money in the pot, and we could double it, and that would still be the case,” Robert White says.

An HPAP applicant says she was left in the lurch after receiving notice that DC’s first-time homebuyer program ran out of money for the fiscal year.

Tasharn Richardson always wanted to buy a house for her family. But the home she purchased last year has proven to be disastrous, she says.