The Likely Impacts of Rent De-Control on DC Residents
Evaluates how ending rent stabilization would affect low- and moderate-income tenants of rent stabilized dwellings and the availability of affordable housing for such tenants. This study concludes that the elimination of the rent stabilization in the District of Columbia will have modest, if not de minimis effects, on District residents that make up the demand for affordable rental housing. Recommends that if the decision is made to end rent control in DC, the means to achieve that end should be the blanket lifting of rent control with advanced notice.


