 To ensure that the renovated homes met the needs of existing residents, DCHA established the Ivy City Home Again Task Force, which arranged for meetings between existing DCHA tenants in Ivy City and potential developers.Residents gave their input as to which developer they preferred, opinions DCHA was bound by regulation to take into account when choosing which developer to work with.That same year, Virginia Railway Express (VRE), a commuter rail line, began negotiations to purchase of the Ivy City rail yard from the yard's current owner, CSX Transportation, for use as a train storage yard.