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He could introduce legislation to cap the number of voucher residents allowed in one building. In fact, Ward 3 residents have explicitly asked him to do this multiple times but he steadfastly refuses to do so.
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He cannot do this without there being a corresponding amendment to the DC Human Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of source of income.  DC should never have elevated "source of income" into a protected class like race, religion, or national origin.  The reality is that owners of market rate rental housing do not necessarily want to be public housing providers.  So "source of income" was put into the DC Human Rights Act because a lot of landlords didn't want any Section 8/voucher renters.      There is a middle ground, where landlords of buildings of 10 or more units, could agree to accept vouchers for at least 10 percent of the units.  Otherwise, what is happening now is that when a building gets a certain percentage of voucher tenants, the externalities associated with those tenants (given that DC has freely handed out vouchers to the long term mentally ill with no support system, and to the recently incarcerated---who often go back to their criminal ways), then the market rate tenants will vote with their feet and move, meaning that the only tenants the landlord can now get are other voucher tenants.  [/quote]

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