Pratt v. District of Columbia Housing Authority

FARRELL, Associate Judge:

In two recent decisions upholding evictions from federally-subsidized housing accommodations, Scarborough v. Winn Residential L.L.P./Atlantic Terrace Apartments, 890 A.2d 249 (D.C.2006), and Calloway v. District of Columbia Hous. Autk, 916 A.2d 888 (D.C.2006), this court held that the statutory federal “one-strike” policy embedded in lease provisions permitting eviction for criminal activity displaces — when applied to such activity — a District of Columbia statute generally allowing tenants an opportunity to correct or “cure” lease violations and thereby avoid…