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[quote=Anonymous][quote]How about forcing the city to provide either on-site or in-neighborhood support services for voucher residents who are placed far from their usual neighborhoods? How about forcing landlords who gladly accept above-market-rate payment from the DC government to use that money for building security? How about making buildings that have been declared nuisance properties off-limits to future voucher recipients until actionable fixes have been made? How about doing something more than whimpering "this is such a sad story" when a child dies in a voucher apartment (there have been, what, three voucher-family kids who have died violent deaths in Connecticut Avenue apartments since he took office)?
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Landlords do not "gladly accept above-market rate payment" ---there was one landlord doing that and a big settlement about it.  Landlords by law cannot refuse to accept voucher tenant applicants nor can landlords cap the number of vouchers in their building.  Both actions are illegal under the DC Human Rights Act which elevated "source of income" to a protected class commensurate with race, ethnicity, gender. etc. which IMO, was extremely unwise.  And I don't know what you expect LLs to do with respect to mentally ill/criminal/violent voucher tenant residents.  It is impossible to evict a tenant for a behavior related lease violation---the courts give endless opportunities to "cure".  The only other path to eviction is non-payment of rent, which isn't happening because the government is paying the rent.  The best way to make a building safe again is to streamline eviction laws and allow landlords to cap the number of vouchers they have to take at 10 to 15% of the units for any building over 10 units.  AND the city needs to REQUIRE that residents receiving vouchers participate in services and then the city needs to offer those services (particularly in the mental health realm).  These are all legislative changes that a competent Ward 3 councilperson should be advocating for.[/quote]

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