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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Too bad it can’t be Section 8.[/quote]

Any rental housing can be section 8, since DC forbids discriminating based on source of income.[/quote]

This isn’t really true.  I am a landlord in DC.  DCRA sets the maximum rental price they will pay in each neighborhood and I have found that it is always below the actual market rate.  Just to use sample numbers, I will advertise a house for $3000/month and DCRA will only give a section 8 voucher in that neighborhood for that size house up to $2800.  I will have lots of interest from Section 8 voucher holders, but cannot and will not rent to any of them because I will be able to rent the house for the full rental price easily to someone without a voucher.  Section 8 voucher holders are not allowed to supplement the voucher or split the house with a non-voucher holder. This is cause to lose their voucher.  I have found this to be true in most neighborhoods in DC.  [/quote]

Wow, that was not our experience at all. Folks had very high vouchers in there 5-6 thousands. DC has also overpaid for apartment units to be flipped from rent control to vouchers for homeless for example with over market rate, but the apartments then lose their rent control status. There is a whole thread on an apt building on Conn Avenue where this occurred. Basically, DC overpaid to lessen affordable housing stock in the city by creating a weird loophole that achieved a short term, but objectionable long term, goal.[/quote]

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