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by Agustus 3738 days ago
What are the loopholes? Is it like Section 8?

They fell in the statement because it was listed on the Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_control_in_the_United_Sta...

Thank you for the heads up.

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http://dhcd.dc.gov/service/rent-control

The most common exemptions from rent control are for rental units that are:

- Federally or District-subsidized

- Built after 1975

- Owned by a natural person (i.e., not a corporation) who owns no more than four rental units in the District

- Vacant when the Act took effect

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To be clear, DC has an extremely tenant friendly set of laws. But the rent control is basically just a legacy of an earlier era.