The Van Ness South Tenants Association today sent a second letter to Eugene Adams, Director of the Mayor’s Office of Legal Counsel (MOLC), opposing the DC Housing Agency’s second effort to block a FOIA by VNSTA regarding DCHA’s use of housing vouchers. The new letter asks MOLC to order DCHA to release basic information about the use of housing vouchers at 3003 Van Ness and the rents paid by DCHA.

Most tenant association members support the use of housing vouchers to help low-income individuals and families afford adequate housing. However, there is mounting evidence that DCHA and the city have misused this important tool, paying extremely high rents and steering windfall profits to landlords while driving up rents and causing other problems for non-voucher recipients.

VNSTA’s FOIA, which was submitted in April, asks DCHA for:

Any agreement between Equity Residential and DCHA
Aggregate (non-personal) information about the number of housing vouchers used at 3003 Van Ness, by year and by program
A list of rents paid to Equity Residential for apartments occupied by voucher recipients, without personal or identifying information

See the letter sent to MOLC today and all previous documents at this link.