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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Hi everyone, my mom has lived in an apartment building in NorthWest DC for almost a decade now. Over the last two years several new people have moved into the building into new rent controlled units that the city decided the apartment complex must have. Recently two families have started having violent confrontations in the lobby together. My mom was walking into the lobby earlier this week when a fight broke out culminating in a woman beaten with a “Please sign in” metal sign and a knife being pulled. My mom was terrified and ran but now I worry that next time it could be a gun. My question is, does she have any legal recourse on recovering her security deposit and moving out given as how this is only the most recent incident in a series of violent incidents? Also there is no security guard only a front desk concierge.

Tldr; mom lives in building with new violent tenants can she get her security deposit back and move?[/quote]

The above was posted on Reddit. Comments asked if this was The Brandywine.

The police report for the incident that is the subject of the thread stated that 2 females, known to one another, got into a fight and stabbed one another in the back. (Literally.) Both refused transport to the hospital. So, could, in fact, have been The Brandywine his mom lives in. Plenty of other options in Connecticut and Wisconsin corridors but there is a lot of violence INSIDE The Brandywine. Used to be so many Murch families. [/quote]

[b]I think[/b] if people with vouchers commit crimes or behave violently, they should lose the voucher and the apartment.  if they have a mental illness they should be moved to places that can help them (group homes with staff onside to help with medications or mental hospitals where they cannot go out for people who are violent and a threat to themselves or others). if not, they should be kicked out of the apartment period. even assuming that housing is a right (and it's a big if), l[u]iving at the taxpayer expense with 150% the already high rent in the best part of town is definitely not a right.[/u]  I am sure there are plenty of lower income families that would love some help to live in the apartments on Wisconsin or CT and send their kids to local schools and that stab each other in the lobby when they have a disagreement, throw the girlfriend out of the 8th floor window or shoot around at 3pm on  Saturday near a play ground. I came to DC in 2001 and rented for 10 yrs apartments on CT, first as a couple and then as a couple with two kids, lived in two different buildings  and it was great. [/quote]

i meant "and that DO NOT stab each other in the lobby...." [/quote]

You think..
What do the people you voted for think?[/quote]

Oh come on.  Matt Frumin doesn't want to put people in apartments here who are violent.  Quit insinuating that.  Just because someone has a criminal record doesn't mean that they will be a repeat offender.[/quote]

He cares more about criminals than law-abiding taxpayers. He’s made that crystal clear.

You get what you vote for.[/quote]

No he hasn't.  He has said that he's not for canceling or throttling back on the vouch program - which does help many, many, many families- because a few bad apples are operating within it and causing shit like this.

That's a reasonable position to take.[/quote]

The program is badly mismanaged from both a financial and safety perspective.  He is placing the interests of others over the interests of his constituents.  There is nothing reasonable with daytime shootings, savings, and car jackings in a once quiet part of town.  [/quote]

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