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Rules to stop homes-to-dorms could further affect affordable housing

In the District of Columbia, a shortage of affordable housing, a hyper-expensive rental market and aging and vanishing housing stock has have tenants battling spiraling rents and housing costs, and have left them at increased risk of getting displaced.

THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY – The council seeks to make permanent a temporary rule enacted last year intended to stop the conversion of private homes into virtual student dorms. By renting bedrooms individually to Loyola and Tulane students, parking had become strained in many surrounding Uptown neighborhoods, and property values were affected by the pursuit of student rentals over maintenance of single-family homes.

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