"Rent Control Protection Amendment Act of 2008”, Bill 17-778*. The bill would ensure that 70 percent  tenant approval of a Voluntary Agreement to increase the rent charged is free of coercive influences, to clarify that the Voluntary Agreement provision shall not  be used to establish the rent charged absent a financial justification provided for  in the Act, and to ensure that the Voluntary Agreement does not conflict with the  purposes of the Act, and to amend section 205 of the Act to clarify that the reconfiguration or alteration of a rental unit is not a valid basis for claiming an  exemption from rent control.

What		DC Council Hearing
When		Tusday, October 14, 2008, 1 pm
Where		John A. WIlson Building, Room 412