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Testimony: Performance Oversight, DCRA (FY18)
DCRA has been a poorly functioning agency for years. DC Superior Court’s Housing Conditions Court was created about nine years ago through advocacy by legal services organizations that had given up on DCRA being a viable resource for addressing illegal conditions in rental housing. Children’s Law Center clients value having this venue, but because tenants can almost never depend on DCRA to follow up with recalcitrant landlords whom DCRA has ordered to make repairs, the Housing Conditions Court docket has become increasingly overburdened. Children’s Law Center attorney Anne Cunningham testifies about what can be done.