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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not driving out existing rent control is another obvious way to hang on to affordable housing. [/quote]

No. One. Is. Driving. Out. Existing. Rent. Controlled. Units.

In fact the biggest threat to rent control units is not building enough supply of new housing to meet demand which will make rent control units very appealing for rehabs to chase the same dollars.

In any case DC is not NY and the number of rent control units in DC is not that great and the units are not income screened and very few additional units are being created.

This whole rent control argument from NIMBY's sounds really appealing and progressive but under any scrutiny it completely falls apart.[/quote]

Planning Director Andrew Trueblood (and soil) says that rent control is meaningless and won’t even discuss it in the mayor’s housing plan.  Yet Council Member Anita Bonds says that rent control is the most effective affordable housing lever in DC.[/quote]

Anita Bonds says this because she might be the only person willing to publicly discuss housing who is as stupid and confused as you are.

And rent control really is pretty meaningless when it comes to expanding the number of available affordable housing units in DC so I'm glad Trueblood is not wasting time on a program that does not even screen incomes.[/quote]

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