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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.

[b]Show me you know nothing about how any of this works without using the word[/b]s.[/quote]

Are you kidding me?  I know EXACTLY how this works.  I deal with this craziness on a daily basis---irate tenants who are upset that the city handed out vouchers to the long-term mentally ill, attorneys who try over and over to get the most problematic tenants evicted, to no avail.  Everyone wants to blame the landlords for a situation that the District itself has created through a series of laws which, taken individually were well-meaning, but collectively have led to chaos.  
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You sound like a complaining neighbor, not someone steep in the details of affordable housing.[/quote]

The situation sucks and is dangerous. Neighbors have every right to complain. Frumin would never allow anyone here cares about to have that happen in their building. [/quote]

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