Our Mission

Access Housing, Inc. (DC) (AHI) is a nonprofit 501(c)3, community-based organization committed and dedicated to the principle that everyone, regardless of income or socioeconomic status, has a right to decent, safe, and affordable housing. The program's focus is to support homeless veterans.AHI is the first program in the greater DC metro area to focus on housing homeless veterans . The organization operates two facilities which provide safe housing to nearly 100 homeless veterans, both men and women at a given time. AHI, which works in partnership with the Department of Veterans Affairs, operates the Southeast Veterans Service Center and the Chesapeake Veterans House. These homes provide homeless veterans their own rooms, full meal service, a variety of counseling services (housing, job, mental health, PTSD, and substance abuse, as needed), barber and beauty services, a VA run medical clinic, and more. The ultimate goal of the program is to help place veterans in permanent housing. Veterans from across the DC metro area reside at the center. The wait list for veterans seeking to obtain a home at the center is extensive. To date, thousands of veterans have successfully returned to civilian life after going through AHI's program.