A D.C. landlord has been buying up rent-controlled apartment buildings, bringing in subsidized tenants to collect higher rents and subjecting residents to dangerously poor conditions, the D.C. attorney general’s office alleges in two new lawsuits.
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A D.C. landlord has been profiting from rental assistance programs while subjecting low-income residents to dangerous conditions, according to two lawsuits.
Razjooyan “thus preys upon some of the District’s most vulnerable residents, exposing them to horrendous housing conditions, while collecting lucrative, guaranteed rents from the District,” one of the suits alleges.
“Razjooyan’s business model involves forcing tenants to live in deplorable, unsafe, horrific conditions that are shocking to the conscience,” Schwalb said in a statement. “No District resident should have to endure such treatment.”
