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oboe- State of the Union was always boarded up. When we had an epidemic of boarded-up houses in DC in the 80's we had the city concrete block up abandoned buildings all around Logan Circle. The city billed the owners and placed a lien. I'm sure the law is still the same.

Of course if someone claiming to be a legal owner is living there it's tougher, but the city can still go against it as a nuisance to either be repaired and made safe by a owner or the city will do so. If you remember the fire at the Brizill house story, the city had twice forced repairs. Also in Dupont we had the house at 16th and T that was "demolition by neglect" where the city forced the owner to either bring it up to code or the city would and charge the owner.

Once DC decides to move against a nuisance property, it has plenty of ways to force repair.

by Tom Coumaris on May 24, 2012 11:01 pm • link • report

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