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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You mean like the entirely rent controlled building on Connecticut Avenue that is being emptied out for an upscale renovation, with the expectation of fewer than 2 IZ units once the building has been redone? The residents of the building who were forced out have all been Bowsered.[/quote] Which building is this?[/quote] There's a recent Post article you can google. gets into the lack of follow up that DC provided, feces smeared in stairwells etc.[/quote] Sedgwick Gardens. The owner is taking lots of voucher tenants now, getting something like 150 percent of market rate. Such vouchers also take the unit out of rent control. Incidents like what the PP described are forcing many longtime tenants in rent controlled units to leave. After the owner has pocketed a lot of taxpayer money for vouchers and emptied out most of the rent controlled units, then it will renovate the building into very expensive units. That’s called housing Bowserization. Developers always win in the end.[/quote]
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