The majority of DC residents rent their homes, and in 2019, when the D.C. Policy Center was collecting data for its 2020 report on rental housing in the District, 60 percent of rental units were in apartment buildings. That’s 124,641 apartment units, in 3,121 buildings. And we’d like to know more about what it’s like to live in them.
We have created this survey (also embedded below) for the purpose of collecting information on DC apartment buildings and landlords. How well do the owners and managers perform on building maintenance, safety and security, noise and trash? How many buildings have tenants associations? How common are problems like those that drove MPD to refer three Van Ness buildings to the “nuisance” properties unit of the Office of the Attorney General? How livable are the places where so many people live?
Because rental housing is an important asset in our neighborhood and across the District, we have been reporting on the “high-rise life” since we started Forest Hills Connection a decade ago. We hope you will complete this survey and share it widely.