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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Reading the Post account today, the fault is on the Council and the mayor for laws and policies that totally put deadbeat tenants in control. DC doesn’t have a printing press to keep money flowing forever.[/quote]

This.  +1M.  It is next to impossible to get a deadbeat tenant evicted, especially with the ERAP (Emergency Rental Assistance Program).  It IS impossible to get rent paying (i.e. subsidized) tenants evicted from a building due to behavioral issues.  Coupled with Housing First as a policy handing out vouchers to the long term homeless/mentally ill with no requirements for case management has turned private apartment buildings into unregulated unsupervised mental institutions.  There are some simple fixes:  (1) fund case management and rapidly evict tenants who fail to comply and (2) permit rapid eviction of any tenant who engages in threatening/violent behaviors; (3) revise the "source of income" provision to the DC Human Rights Act to allow landlords to refuse subsidy tenants if 20% of the building is already subsidy-tenanted.[/quote]

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