A group representing small D.C. landlords petitioned the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Thursday to block city lawmakers from extending rent control to Section 8 renters.
The appeal came two days after the D.C. Council’s Committee on Housing held a public hearing on the Rent Stabilization Protection Amendment Act of 2025. The bill would make the District the first city to cap rents at below-market rates for tenants receiving financial assistance from HUD’s Housing Choice Voucher Program.
The Small Multifamily Owners Association, which represents the city’s multidwelling tenement units, asked HUD Secretary Scott Turner and General Counsel David Woll in a letter to declare that the proposal “intrudes upon a field fully occupied by federal housing law.”…