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Calling it "the biggest slumlord in Atlantic City" at a House Financial Services Committee meeting Wednesday, the fired former executive director of the Atlantic City Housing Authority described what he called "corrupt" practices that waste millions of dollars while residents live in unsafe and unhealthy conditions.

Housing choice vouchers and rent control policies should reinforce each other. When one tool in the housing toolbox is used in such a way that undermines another, @C_OGallachoir writes, tenants lose.

The agency says it doesn't have the capacity to manage all the overdue improvements to public housing, despite well-documented needs.

D.C. is mired in a legal battle as it tries to make progress at the Capitol Gateway site, which has been stuck since Walmart abandoned it.

The D.C. Housing Authority held an emergency meeting with its board on the report, issued by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The board in charge of the District’s public housing has renewed a promise to prevent the displacement of residents during the planned redevelopment of their neighborhood in Southwest DC.