D.C. is overpaying landlords at a damaging cost to city residents
Broken elevators. No electricity. A stench that lingers in the hallways. For a senior citizen to live in those conditions, the District pays $2,467 a month.
“The goal of the voucher program is to help tenants, who typically pay about 30 percent of their income toward rent, enter the private market,” the article reads. “But by failing to assess how much units are worth, DCHA has created a market of its own — on which developers and landlords have capitalized.”D.C. mom begs to move after finding mice in food and children’s bed
When you are in need of housing, a month can feel too long. It’s hard to imagine what 20 years of waiting does to a person. When I was in high school, my mom found herself between housing situations, and for about a year, she and I shared a twin-size bed at a relative’s home. We were safe. Even so, that feeling of not having our own home, of having to rely on borrowed space, is one I have never forgotten. It felt unmooring.
What makes what city officials have been doing especially infuriating is they are not just overpaying landlords; they’re overpaying landlords for inadequate housing.The article describes Bill Slover — who was appointed to the DCHA board by the D.C. Consortium of Legal Services Providers, which represents low-income residents — as raising concerns about rising voucher costs to both the previous director of the agency, Tyrone Garrett, and the current director, Brenda Donald. On Sept.
In an interview Donald gave for the investigative article, she acknowledged the overpayments and said her stance on the issue changed after talking with HUD officials. “We are going to fix all of this,” she said.
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