The Van Ness South Tenants Association today sent a letter to Colleen Green, Director of the DC Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), asking if the much-awaited database of citywide rents will include historical data.

If the database does not include historical data, it will prevent the public and the press from finding out the extent of the “rent concession” scam, by which many DC residents were overcharged by rental housing companies.

Only the residents of 3003 Van Ness who were overcharged are slated to receive $1 million in restitution. There may be thousands of other tenants of Equity Residential and of other rental housing companies that may be due restitution for overcharges.

Read the letter in printer-friendly format.

See the written response from the Director of the DC Department of Housing and Community Development, who reports that ““Once completed and launched for public use, the rent control database will not include historical rent data beyond the past three years.”