Dorchester House Associates Ltd. Partnership v. District of Columbia Rental Housing Commission, 938 A.2d 696 (2007)

Citation: Dorchester House Associates Ltd. Partnership v. District of Columbia Rental Housing Commission, 938 A.2d 696 (2007)
Parent Document: Dorchester House Associates Ltd. Partnership v. District of Columbia Rental Housing Commission, 938 A.2d 696 (2007)
Jurisdiction: DC (municipal)
Effective Date: 2007-12-20
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1440723/dorchester-house-associates-ltd... ↗

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monly known as rent control.... Briefly put, the goal of this scheme, born of a perceived severe housing shortage in the District, is to ensure that decent, affordable housing is available for the various sectors of the population, while at the same time landlords are allowed a fair rate of return on their investments.... Under the rent control laws, the principal protections for tenants are the imposition of a rent ceiling and the prohibition against upward adjustment of that ceiling except on specifically enumerated grounds.... The rent ceiling operates as an upper bound on the amount of rent that a housing provider is allowed to charge a tenant. A rent ceiling is established for each rental unit by starting with a “base rent,” ... and adding any “duly authorized” upward adjustments that are permitted from time to time.... In order to obtain one of the several upward rent ceiling adjustments authorized by law, a housing provider ... must either petition for, or report its election to take, the rent ceiling adjustment in a timely and appropriate manner, and it must provide appropriate notification to tenants who may be affected by the adjustment. Sawyer,

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