Tenants See Red
The D.C. Council is set to turn into landlord-tenant court tomorrow as a council committee holds a roundtable on revisions to the city's nobody-can-figure-it-out rent control system.
Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) and Mayor Anthony A. Williams (D) each have pushed plans. Depending on which side you talk to, the bills will either kick the last four middle-class families out of Northwest or provide quality low-cost housing for all.
Come hear some facts and a lot of spin: 5 p.m. Friday in the Council Chamber on the fifth floor of the John A. Wilson Building at 14th and Pennsylvania NW.
By Eric Weiss |
March 30, 2006; 4:12 PM ET
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Posted by: DC tenant | March 30, 2006 08:29 PM
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Posted by: CT | March 31, 2006 01:41 PM
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The Mayor's Pro-LandLord Bill "Rent Control" Bill will lead to higher rent increases.
It has fewer protections for tenants from illegal rent increases.
It gives you less time to challenge a rent increase.
It limits your right to a rent refund based on housing code violations, even if those violations are very serious.
It erases a very good court decision for tenants (the Sawyer decision). The Sawyer case says tenants can undo rent increases if the landlord did not file on time. The new law would get rid of that rule.
It says landlords do not have to file any notice of important information, like changes in ownership or management of the building.
It lets landlords take very high rent increases any time there is a vacancy.