At a D.C. Council hearing, some frustrated residents and housing advocates said they haven’t observed much of a difference so far at the new agency.
It’s been just under five months since the District’s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs broke up into two smaller agencies — and reviews of the change, at least so far, are mixed.in October came after years of residential complaints about the sprawling former agency, which was responsible for regulating businesses and enforcing compliance with the city’s building code.
Mendelson has been DCRA’s most vocal critic on the council: He spearheaded the bill to break it up into two agencies over an attempted veto from Mayor Muriel E. Bowser , who had argued the split would be costly and impede steps DCRA was taking to address its issues. The chairman publiclywhen in late September, one day before DCRA’s split, the mayor announced that she was appointing Chrappah as the acting director of the new DOB.
But Chrappah said Mendelson should also look at the full picture: Generally speaking, more residents are now living in better housing conditions and homes that are built up to code than in the past, he asserted. Fines had been levied against the problematic housing properties mentioned throughout the hearing, he said, and DOB works with the attorney general to pursue additional enforcement.“I also get angry when I hear about residents who live in terrible housing conditions.
at those performance metrics in addition to new tools that allow users to look up vacant properties by neighborhood, and view the average time it takes to get a construction permit.Many who critiqued DOB’s performance at Thursday’s hearing discussed issues long associated with DCRA: nuisance vacant properties that have long gone unaddressed and failures to ensure building construction adheres to city code.
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