WASHINGTON (7News) — An act aimed to reshape rental housing, evictions and tenant protections passed with a council member’s markups on Wednesday amid an affordable housing crisis in D.C., officials said.
This passed although D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser called on the D.C. City Council to reject the Council’s Committee on Housing recommendations for the Rebalancing Expectations for Neighbors, Tenants and Landlords (RENTAL) Act.
“Now by gutting the RENTAL Act, Councilmember Robert White has sided with residents who are taking advantage of the system including those who commit crimes in their units, and in the process sinking our affordable housing market,” said Bowser on X…