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Apartment updates: New “nuisance” building at Van Ness; Tenant leaders request meeting with mayor

May 12, 2022 by FHC 13 Comments

MPD has referred Connecticut House, an apartment building at 4500 Connecticut Avenue, to the Office of the Attorney General division that investigates “nuisance” properties. MPD Second District Lieutenant Stephen Amodeo confirmed in an email that “recent qualifying violations of the law” led the police to take this step, which can lead to prosecution of the […]

Filed Under: Featured, High-Rise Life, Home Front, News, Van Ness

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Current rental housing vouchers process “ain’t working,” says DC deputy mayor

April 25, 2022 by FHC 5 Comments

by Marlene Berlin A Bowser administration official publicly acknowledged that there are problems with the District’s housing vouchers system, including agencies not following up or otherwise providing necessary services to apartment residents receiving housing assistance. Chris Geldart, the deputy mayor for public safety and justice, told ANC 3F’s April 19th meeting that the agencies that […]

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Do you live in a DC apartment building? Take our survey and tell us about your “high-rise life”

March 23, 2022 by FHC 7 Comments

The majority of DC residents rent their homes, and in 2019, when the D.C. Policy Center was collecting data for its 2020 report on rental housing in the District, 60 percent of rental units were in apartment buildings. That’s 124,641 apartment units, in 3,121 buildings. And we’d like to know more about what it’s like […]

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Letters to the Editor: Fix DC housing policies to repair past harms; Landlords have a public safety responsibility, too

March 18, 2022 by FHC 1 Comment

The two letters below were written after the February 1st virtual meeting of the MPD Second District Community Advisory Committee. The CAC gathered police and DC behavioral health officials to discuss “an uptick of complaints” from and about apartment buildings. (We reported on a portion of the conversation, which went over who to call in […]

Filed Under: Featured, High-Rise Life, News, Opinion, To the Editor

Connecticut House residents form a tenants association

March 14, 2022 by FHC 1 Comment

Residents of Connecticut House apartments have organized a tenants association in order to negotiate safety and security improvements with their landlord, DARO Management. Residents of 4500 Connecticut Avenue have flagged several issues in communications with DARO, Forest Hills Connection has learned. Residents were being threatened with physical harm by other residents or visitors. Packages were […]

Filed Under: Featured, High-Rise Life, Home Front, News

Residents of a Van Ness “nuisance” building say management is ignoring structural as well as security problems

January 19, 2022 by FHC 7 Comments

Residents of 3003 Van Ness including Harry Gural, the president of the apartment building’s tenants association, spoke of security and safety concerns during a December 16th meeting led by Council member Mary Cheh. MPD 2D Commander Duncan Bedlion said during the meeting that the building’s management company, Equity Residential, has been unresponsive to police recommendations […]

Filed Under: Featured, High-Rise Life, News, Van Ness

MPD referred three Van Ness apartment buildings to DC AG’s “nuisance” property office

January 18, 2022 by FHC Leave a Comment

The commander of the Metropolitan Police Department’s Second District has reported three Van Ness and Forest Hills apartment buildings to the division of the Office of the Attorney General that handles “nuisance” properties because they have not implemented recommendations that could curtail problems that lead to many police service calls. At a December 16th public […]

Filed Under: Around the Neighborhood, Featured, Forest Hills, High-Rise Life, News

Resident unity and landlord accountability: How Brandywine Apartments changed things for the better

December 13, 2021 by FHC 1 Comment

In 2017, the District increased the value of rental subsidies, which made apartment buildings on Connecticut Avenue and other relatively expensive parts of the District more affordable to voucher holders. The resulting increase in these tenants coincided with reports of thefts, vandalism and some violent incidents at buildings including Sedgwick Gardens (3726 Connecticut Avenue). [We […]

Filed Under: Around the Neighborhood, Featured, Forest Hills, High-Rise Life, Home Front, News, North Cleveland Park, Van Ness

Opinion: DC can do better for renters than current rent control bills would allow

September 21, 2020 by FHC Leave a Comment

by Carren Kaston The Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization Committee of the DC Council is holding a series of roundtables and hearings on various aspects of rent control through the rest of September and October. However, it seems to be taking up the subject of rent control and rent control reform piecemeal, rather than from a […]

Filed Under: Featured, High-Rise Life, News, Opinion

Upper Connecticut Ave. apartment residents say buildings slow to mandate masks

June 9, 2020 by FHC 1 Comment

by Marlene Berlin Some apartment management companies moved slowly to require masks and social distancing from residents and staff, or to post signs and other notices of such requirements, say tenant leaders and residents of buildings on upper Connecticut Avenue. William Hawkins, a founder of the DC Area Tenant Associations Consortium, or DCATAC, lives in […]

Filed Under: High-Rise Life, News

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