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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A Landlord cannot refuse to rent to someone presenting with a housing voucher.
A Landlord cannot refuse to rent to someone with a prior criminal conviction, even if that conviction is for violent acts.
DC's Housing First program does not require recipients to interact with their case managers or take their meds.
If a tenant repeatedly violates their lease---by, for example---refusing to let  maintenance workers into their unit even when their broken pipes are gushing water, or  by threatening other residents or employees of the building, it can take up to a year to get the tenant evicted on a lease violation.  And that assumes that the pro-tenant Landlord/Tenant court doesn't require the LL t o give the tenant another chance.
Landlords do not have the ability to limit the number of voucher recipients they are required to lease to.
There appears to be a misconception that landlords WANT this chaos.  They do not.  Requiring landlords to essentially operate public housing and unstaffed mental institutions causes significant property damage to buildings and results in market-rent paying tenants decamping to other  markets.  Once chaos reaches  a certain level, it is impossible to lease the remainder of the units.[/quote]

This is insane. We had 'normal' bad tenants in DC (not the horror stories, but fairly meh) and vowed we will never rent again since the law is NEVER on the landlord's side. It's just not worth it to be a landlord here in DC. NO, we are not 'discriminating'. We just prefer our home sit empty when we are called away.
 It would seem that the way the law is written, it's written to cause a lot of safety issues in these voucher buildings. Shame on this program. Housing Last.[/quote]

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