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Anonymous wrote:Rent controlled units do NOT provide afforable housing to the people who truly need. Rent control is not means tested, so someone making 200k a year can live in rent control forever. Its probably the most inefficient ways to deliver affordable housing.

That's probably less than 3% of rent controlled tenants in DC. I've lived in rent controlled apartment in DC - they are safe and habitable, put usually quite dated and ugly. No dishwashers, no in-unit washers and dryer. I left my rent controlled apartment for a nicer place once I made enough money.

The vast majority of people (80%+) who are in rent controlled apartments would probably be homeless or leave DC if you took away their homes. Further, rent controlled apartments in DC remain under the rent control system forever. I can go get a rent controlled apartment today, if I want. They are freely available. Ward 3 easily has 8,000+ rent controlled units.

The good thing about rent control in DC that it rewards long term residents who (1) work for a living and (2) make a moderate income. These are people who can stick to a budget and, since they have rent control, they stay put. They become pillars of their community because they are so invested in their neighborhood for the long run.

So it Ward 3 has an estimated 8000 rent controlled units which tend to rent to low income people, why would Bowser’s Office of Planning ignore that completely to claim only 450 or so “affordable” units in Rock Creek West? I can’t imagine it’s the case but you don’t suppose all of that rent controlled housing undercuts Bowser’s political narrative that it’s necessary to upzone much of Ward 3 to add more affordable housing?

It’s actually closer to 12,000 units in Ward 3 that are rent controlled.

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Anonymous wrote:Rent controlled units do NOT provide afforable housing to the people who truly need. Rent control is not means tested, so someone making 200k a year can live in rent control forever. Its probably the most inefficient ways to deliver affordable housing.

That's probably less than 3% of rent controlled tenants in DC. I've lived in rent controlled apartment in DC - they are safe and habitable, put usually quite dated and ugly. No dishwashers, no in-unit washers and dryer. I left my rent controlled apartment for a nicer place once I made enough money.

The vast majority of people (80%+) who are in rent controlled apartments would probably be homeless or leave DC if you took away their homes. Further, rent controlled apartments in DC remain under the rent control system forever. I can go get a rent controlled apartment today, if I want. They are freely available. Ward 3 easily has 8,000+ rent controlled units.

The good thing about rent control in DC that it rewards long term residents who (1) work for a living and (2) make a moderate income. These are people who can stick to a budget and, since they have rent control, they stay put. They become pillars of their community because they are so invested in their neighborhood for the long run.

And enriching her crony developer friends in the process. She’s such a sleaze.

Yup I have a friend exactly like that! But Bowser is flipping all the lower.middle class, long term worker rent control units to ABOVE standard rate units for homeless that will THEN go free market. She is pretty much wasting resources and hurting everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:Rent controlled units do NOT provide afforable housing to the people who truly need. Rent control is not means tested, so someone making 200k a year can live in rent control forever. Its probably the most inefficient ways to deliver affordable housing.

That's probably less than 3% of rent controlled tenants in DC. I've lived in rent controlled apartment in DC - they are safe and habitable, put usually quite dated and ugly. No dishwashers, no in-unit washers and dryer. I left my rent controlled apartment for a nicer place once I made enough money.

The vast majority of people (80%+) who are in rent controlled apartments would probably be homeless or leave DC if you took away their homes. Further, rent controlled apartments in DC remain under the rent control system forever. I can go get a rent controlled apartment today, if I want. They are freely available. Ward 3 easily has 8,000+ rent controlled units.

The good thing about rent control in DC that it rewards long term residents who (1) work for a living and (2) make a moderate income. These are people who can stick to a budget and, since they have rent control, they stay put. They become pillars of their community because they are so invested in their neighborhood for the long run.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rent controlled units do NOT provide afforable housing to the people who truly need. Rent control is not means tested, so someone making 200k a year can live in rent control forever. Its probably the most inefficient ways to deliver affordable housing.

That's probably less than 3% of rent controlled tenants in DC. I've lived in rent controlled apartment in DC - they are safe and habitable, put usually quite dated and ugly. No dishwashers, no in-unit washers and dryer. I left my rent controlled apartment for a nicer place once I made enough money.

The vast majority of people (80%+) who are in rent controlled apartments would probably be homeless or leave DC if you took away their homes. Further, rent controlled apartments in DC remain under the rent control system forever. I can go get a rent controlled apartment today, if I want. They are freely available. Ward 3 easily has 8,000+ rent controlled units.

The good thing about rent control in DC that it rewards long term residents who (1) work for a living and (2) make a moderate income. These are people who can stick to a budget and, since they have rent control, they stay put. They become pillars of their community because they are so invested in their neighborhood for the long run.

So it Ward 3 has an estimated 8000 rent controlled units which tend to rent to low income people, why would Bowser’s Office of Planning ignore that completely to claim only 450 or so “affordable” units in Rock Creek West? I can’t imagine it’s the case but you don’t suppose all of that rent controlled housing undercuts Bowser’s political narrative that it’s necessary to upzone much of Ward 3 to add more affordable housing?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rent controlled units do NOT provide afforable housing to the people who truly need. Rent control is not means tested, so someone making 200k a year can live in rent control forever. Its probably the most inefficient ways to deliver affordable housing.

That's probably less than 3% of rent controlled tenants in DC. I've lived in rent controlled apartment in DC - they are safe and habitable, put usually quite dated and ugly. No dishwashers, no in-unit washers and dryer. I left my rent controlled apartment for a nicer place once I made enough money.

The vast majority of people (80%+) who are in rent controlled apartments would probably be homeless or leave DC if you took away their homes. Further, rent controlled apartments in DC remain under the rent control system forever. I can go get a rent controlled apartment today, if I want. They are freely available. Ward 3 easily has 8,000+ rent controlled units.

The good thing about rent control in DC that it rewards long term residents who (1) work for a living and (2) make a moderate income. These are people who can stick to a budget and, since they have rent control, they stay put. They become pillars of their community because they are so invested in their neighborhood for the long run.

So it Ward 3 has an estimated 8000 rent controlled units which tend to rent to low income people, why would Bowser’s Office of Planning ignore that completely to claim only 450 or so “affordable” units in Rock Creek West? I can’t imagine it’s the case but you don’t suppose all of that rent controlled housing undercuts Bowser’s political narrative that it’s necessary to upzone much of Ward 3 to add more affordable housing?

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Anonymous wrote:Rent controlled units do NOT provide afforable housing to the people who truly need. Rent control is not means tested, so someone making 200k a year can live in rent control forever. Its probably the most inefficient ways to deliver affordable housing.

That's probably less than 3% of rent controlled tenants in DC. I've lived in rent controlled apartment in DC - they are safe and habitable, put usually quite dated and ugly. No dishwashers, no in-unit washers and dryer. I left my rent controlled apartment for a nicer place once I made enough money.

The vast majority of people (80%+) who are in rent controlled apartments would probably be homeless or leave DC if you took away their homes. Further, rent controlled apartments in DC remain under the rent control system forever. I can go get a rent controlled apartment today, if I want. They are freely available. Ward 3 easily has 8,000+ rent controlled units.

The good thing about rent control in DC that it rewards long term residents who (1) work for a living and (2) make a moderate income. These are people who can stick to a budget and, since they have rent control, they stay put. They become pillars of their community because they are so invested in their neighborhood for the long run.

Anonymous wrote:If Bowser was a Republican, Democrats would be in high dudgeon over her coziness with developers.

Anonymous wrote:Rent controlled units do NOT provide afforable housing to the people who truly need. Rent control is not means tested, so someone making 200k a year can live in rent control forever. Its probably the most inefficient ways to deliver affordable housing.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe the Bowser flack can answer the question of why the existing rent controlled housing stock was deliberately omitted from the reported number of affordable units? Why is this important pillar of true affordability (as opposed to higher income-based IZ units) being ignored?!

Maybe you can actually look at the Housing Equity Report before you speak
https://housing.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/housingdc/page_content/attachments/Housing%20Equity%20Report%2010-15-19.pdf

Or maybe you can look back at previous posts in this thread where these graphics which came from the Housing Equity Report were already provided for your viewing pleasure.

Anonymous wrote:Figure 1: where DC'S EXISTING dedicated affordable housing is located by planning area
Figure 2: areas with the biggest shortages of affordable housing targeted for the biggest increases by 2025

Exactly. The so-called Equity Report did not include rent controlled units.

Perhaps it is because this really ins't about affordable housing. It's about picking and choosing the numbers to justify a massive up zoning of ward 3 under the pretext of "affordable" housing. This will benefit developers and other cronies who contribute to the mayor and are salivating at getting denser, taller zoning in a lucrative market. First to fall to the bulldozer will be the numerous Class B apartment buildings west of Rock Creek Park that contain the District's largest number of rent controlled units by ward.

Well as previously stated, the public review period of the plan runs through Dec. 20 so if you got objections I suggest you get off DCUM and go find yourself a drawing board to get a plan together to poke some legitimate holes in the plan prior to that date - otherwise IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.