New legislation could be coming to the District that D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser says would make life easier for the city’s residents.
On Friday, Bowser announced a package of bills designed to protect affordable housing and modernize housing laws in the nation’s capital.
The Housing Investment Protection Act, one piece of proposed legislation, is meant to improve the city’s housing laws by providing more support to tenants during unit repairs or rehabilitation. It also expands the Local Rental Supplement Program, an effort to increase affordable housing supply, and clarifies the right of a housing provider to access units in order to make repairs…