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Well, since the density folks promised "vibrancy" there is nothing wrong with questioning the blight we've gotten instead.

Well come on over to the debacle that is the Connecticut Ave. corridor. The panhandlers have to get up early to get a good spot on the CP commercial strip. It’s gotten so bad they’re now all over Van Ness. The smell of marijuana is all over. Mentally ill in all the buildings. But this is what equity looks like in practice. Instead of raising blighted areas in other parts of the city it’s easier, cheaper, and quicker to pull down the nice parts of the city. Please think carefully about who you bore for in November.[/quote]

The city's answer to people setting up tents on all the public spaces downtown is to give out vouchers to go live on Conn. Ave.
DC Housing laws prohibit landlords from refusing to accept vouchers.
DC Housing laws prohibit landlords from evicting tenants for lease violations (i.e., damaging property, being a nuisance or intimidating to other tenants).  Theoretically it might be possible but in legal practice it is not.  The only way to evict a tenant is for non-payment of rent, but if the city is providing the voucher, the landlord doesn't have that option.
Landlords have to pay for increased security when a mentally ill and/or substance abusing tenant harasses other residents.  Landlords have had to relocate tenants from floors occupied by threatening mentally ill tenants.  Finally, landlords have to bribe the undesirable tenants to leave, so the rest of their rent-paying tenants don't leave.
This is the Housing First program in action and it is a mess.

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