I lived in the Parkway for 10 years and moved out just after they had competed all of the upgrades and transitioned all of the 2 bedrooms to 1 bedrooms and studios. We had violence issues in the building and with a young child, just couldn’t justify staying there. The voucher recipients are given keys and then forgotten. And the residents who pay good money to live in that building are also suffering. It’s a terrible situation that sounds like it’s only getting worse. We still have friends in the building with kids and they’re desperate to find another housing situation.

OP just wanted to let you know this post made me hungry for jollof and now I am waiting here for my order, so job well done.

The shooting was ridiculous. It was the last straw for a lot of folks. Many neighbors I know are moving out or are planning to move ASAP.

Spicy Water is so good! They just moved into the neighborhood, and we have been multiple times. Everything we've tried has been good, but the real surprise is the fries. I'm not sure what spices they put on them, but they are tasty. Also, very friendly service.

Wow, I thought “this sounds like the monstrosity in my neighborhood” and sure enough it is. Hello apparent neighbor?

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They definitely had jollof at the cart. I've had it, and it's good.

Not sure you have seen the news about McPherson, but my gut says that this bedroom is better than living on the street. I have never lived on the street, so maybe I am mistaken.

Wife is West African and stopped by yesterday. Happy to see it open. We can’t wait to give it a try.

proud boys leader was an fbi informant though

Make an account on dice.com and indeed.com you’ll have 3 interviews by next week.

One of the most funded social services cities in america

If DC rent subsidies weren’t so generous, Landlords would have no incentive to rent their $800,000 properties to single mothers with bad credit and bad kids.

A lot of the time the culprit is regulatory capture, where the industry that is meant to be governed by an agency ends up defining the terms of its governance. A famous recent example is Boeing and the FAA, among many others. It seems likely that DCHA is extremely cozy with landlords and this is one result.

The Parkway on Connecticut Ave. there was just a shooting there a couple of weeks ago

You’re not wrong. DCHA’s issue is that they aren’t doing any rent reasonableness assessments and haven’t done so for years. Paying over FMR might make sense in certain areas, but DCHA isn’t following through on their own policies to assess that.

I don't work for a PHA but I work with them on certain project types. It's all tied together, really, so aside from regulations that apply specifically to a PHA's program, it's all kind of in the same basket because what a tenant has to do is connected/related to what a landlord has to do - they're just steps in the overall process.

I visit 24 CFR (the regulations relating to anything HUD, which includes PHAs) to reference something probably about once a week on average. Since my organization serves tenants, it's usually related to what we must do as a recipient of funding from various streams or to what a tenant must do as a participant in one of those federally funded programs. Some of our clients are tenants in project-based voucher programs.

On the SAFMR and grouping/analysis, I believe HOC in Montgomery County does something similar in doing their rent reasonableness analyses, but it might be on a more granular basis.

Best metro around tbh.

> You guys are overestimating the “corruption” here.

There's a tendency on Reddit to assume corruption when incompetence is a better answer.

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> What is it in the US where we just can't do anything efficiently or competently.

I mean - there ARE well run government programs. You just don't read about them because no one publishes new articles about things going well.

If this is such an easy money making thing why aren’t more people doing it? Why is there a huge waiting list of people with section 8 vouchers and so few places available? There should be an abundance of places and a shortage of available voucher holders. That’s definitely not the case.

I mean, this is WMATA we're talking about. Breaking rates seems pretty correct.

I think Bowser is trying to win the all time record for putting horribly unsuited people in charge of things. Corruption at its finest.

Indeed