Meaningful yet simple reforms to create more housing will ultimately lower its cost and raise the quality of living for all residents.
Priority One
STATUS: Completed Succesfully!
Modernize decades-old regulations that have driven up housing costs. The Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA) is well-intentioned legislation designed to protect low-income renters but is too often applied to luxury buildings or to needlessly block transactions.
Priority Tw0
STATUS: Completed Succesfully!
Enact permanent Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) reform to ease the burden on rent-paying tenants and restore landlords’ motivation to provide affordable housing.
Additional Priorities
Remove roadblocks that prevent building more housing, driving up costs and causing confusion. Utilizing Matter of Right instead of Planned Unit Development (PUD) as DC’s default zoning approach would ensure developers follow existing zoning law and remove obstacles to responsible developments.
Streamline permitting for homeowners to make leasing their basements easier. Duplicative bureaucracy discourages the creation of additional units in existing homes that have spaces to rent.