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Very interesting map.  Lots of it a result of the kickbacks Bowser’s voucher queen took from CT ave landlords.   She stepped down but I have heard nothing about her being held accountable.  [/quote]

Who is the voucher queen?[/quote]

From March 30, 2023 Washington post

The most recent internal audit accuses Karissa Spann, a deputy director of the voucher program, of a conflict of interest in her relationship to a landlord. Spann, whose name was redacted from the report reviewed by The Washington Post, confirmed she was the subject of an investigation, said it had not been properly conducted and denied wrongdoing. The other audit, which also contained redactions, accuses a lower-level employee of steering vouchers to people unqualified to receive them. Spann along with two lower-level employees are no longer employed by the housing authority, DCHA officials confirmed. The agency’s internal auditing office found her in violation of ethics standards and accused her of planning to steer voucher tenants to a landlord with whom she’d had a financial relationship. [D.C. overpays landlords millions to house the city’s poorest] The investigation originated from a Jan. 24 complaint by an employee under Spann’s supervision. The complaint alleged that she maintained a financial relationship with a landlord described as owning 30 apartment buildings totaling 700 units. The landlord, whose name is redacted from the report, told auditors he met Spann 11 years ago through an unidentified business venture and had provided her with a “financial bailout” when her business was in “financial distress.” The landlord told auditors he paid Spann “50 to 100%” of the first month’s rent for placing residents in his apartment complexes. He said he had not paid Spann to do this since she began at DCHA. But in January, the landlord told auditors, he again asked for her help, and he had intended to pay her. The landlord declined to provide further information because he didn’t want to get her “into trouble,” the audit report said. Auditors obtained recent text messages in which Spann referred to the landlord as her “client,” according to the audit report, which states that she did not disclose her business on conflict-of-interest waiver forms when she was hired. Before joining DCHA in May of last year, Spann ran a D.C.-based real estate business, Fresh Start Housing Services, but she said that she received no payments while working at DCHA and that there were no conflicts of interest. “I wasn’t providing consultant services, I was providing weekly landlord coaching and tenant classes,” she said.[/quote]

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