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D.C. Code § 42-3505.06

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D.C. Code § 42-3505.06
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(3) If a multifamily housing accommodation has a consistently enforced, written policy against canvassing, a tenant shall accompany a tenant organizer who is not a tenant while the tenant organizer is on the property of the multifamily housing accommodation. The tenant organizer who is not a tenant shall be afforded the same privileges and rights of access as other invited outside parties in the normal course of operations.

(d) No owner or agent of an owner of a multifamily housing accommodation shall interfere with the right of a tenant or tenant organizer to conduct the following activities related to the establishment or operation of a tenant organization:

(1) Distributing literature in common areas, including lobby areas;

(2) Placing literature at or under tenants’ doors;

(3) Posting information on all building bulletin boards;

(4) Assisting tenants to participate in tenant organization activities;

(5) Convening tenant or tenant organization meetings at any reasonable time and in any appropriate space that would reasonably be interpreted as areas that the tenant had access to under the terms of their lease, including any tenant’s unit, a community room, a common area including lobbies, or other available space; provided, that an owner or agent of owner shall not attend or make audio recordings of such meetings unless permitted to do so by the tenant organization, if one exists, or by a majority of tenants in attendance, if a tenant organization does not exist;

(6) Formulating responses to owner actions, including:

(A) Rent or rent ceiling increases or requests for rent or rent ceiling increases;

(B) Proposed increases, decreases, or other changes in the housing accommodation’s facilities and services; and