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[quote=Anonymous][quote]In DC landlords cannot consider past criminal convictions if more than 7 years old, no matter how heinous. So if someone served 8 years for the rape of a child, then gets out, landlord can't consider that when renting a unit in a building filled with families. They also cannot consider credit if rent is paid with a voucher or past evictions even if for grounds other than non-payment.

SO at least are often on a registry. Murderers are being moved into buildings and there is no way to know. One recently was moved into a building in Chevy Chase DC that is full of the unsuspecting and vulnerable elderly and families of modest means eager to get their kids into Lafayette, Deal, JR.

There have been issues in condo buildings too, where individual landlords are eager to get in on the $$$ that they city pays over market rate for vouchers. Any multifamily housing may have unanticipated safety risks. If not from the voucher holder, then their associates. [b]Over time, many buildings tip and become de facto, overpriced, private public housing.[/b]
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This is exactly what is happening while DHCD is sitting on THOUSANDS of units that are uninhabitable and have not been maintained.  Private landlords should not be forced to be the default public housing providers in the city.  There is a misconception that the owners of these building are making bank off the voucher tenants.  They are not.  The costs of increased security, increased damage to units, and common areas are not made up for by the voucher rents.  Yes, there may have been a small subset of landlords who once thought that vouchers were a way to make up revenue.  They have now learned their lesson but are in a death spiral of buildings becoming de facto public housing.  [/quote]

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