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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The housing we need is housing for people who can only afford to pay $1000/month max. You’re not going to get prices of market rate apartments to drop that low without a crisis. [b]There would have to be an investment by the city in subsidized housing.[/b] Much better use of funds than the voucher program.
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Exactly.  The city has thousands of public housing units it already owns but which are uninhabitable.   The inability to renovate and refurbish the existing DCHA stock is epic  mismanagement by the Bowser administration.  The solution---hand out vouchers---has as  a practical matter forced the city's private landlords to become the providers of public housing because the District is incapable of getting actual public housing back into service.  [/quote]

And the crime, disruptive behavior and social problems in the new "voucher villages" where voucher holders are concentrated have forced a lot of longtime tenants, often people in workforce jobs or on fixed incomes, to flee the buildings where they formerly found more affordable housing.  Net-net, Bowser's voucher program may be making it harder, not easier, to maintain the existing stock affordable housing in areas like Ward 3, especially rent controlled units.  One step forward, two steps back for DC.[/quote]

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