Dyer v. D.C. Department of Housing & Community Development

Prior to the Rental Housing Conversion and Sale Act of 1980, D.C.Code 1981, § 45-1611 et seq., the District of Columbia Council passed the Condominium and Cooperative Conversion Stabilization Act of 1979, D.C.Law 3-143, 27 D.C.Reg. 958 (1981), which placed a moratorium on the conversion to condominium of any housing accommodation under the Condominium Act of 1976, D.C.Code 1978 Supp., § 5-1201 et seq. However, § 4(a)(4) of the Stabilization Act authorized the mayor to exempt “any housing accommodation with respect to which there was a substantial financial investment on or before May 22,1979,…