In October 2022, a damning audit of DC’s Housing Authority identified 82 violations of federal policies. Two years later, the DCHA is making only halting progress. The agency’s mismanagement has had real world consequences. Two-thirds of the unhoused people who died in DC last year had a housing voucher, but were still waiting for an apartment at the time of their death. Housing may not have prevented these deaths, but they would have occurred under more dignified circumstances.