Anyone here the NPR piece on DC Landlord Tenant Court?
This morning I stopped to here a story, part of a series (I think) that NPR's Morning Edition is doing on housing. "Welcome To Rent Court, Where Tenants Can Face A Tenuous Fate" and of course it sides with the tenant. I was semi-pleasantly surprised to hear from Bread for the City a charity in my neighborhood, which sometimes helps renters who show up to rent court.
Though they try to apply the story nationally, it's about DC's Landlord- Tenant Court. I learned a little something about the court that I didn't know before. The court would prefer landlords and tenants work out some agreement on their own, according to the report.
They do get the side of a landlord, someone who sounds old and crusty, and the solution in the story was cash for keys.