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Washington D.C.'s property-rights enforcement framework has drawn fresh scrutiny after a Columbia Heights landlord spent eight months unable to recover her own basement apartment.
Tatyana Day Velasquez, who owns a three-unit building in the district, told Fox News Digital that unauthorized occupants had turned the unit into what she described as a "drug haven," while property taxes and court fees continued to mount.
Photos and videos Velasquez provided show the apartment littered with needles, drug pipes, Narcan, fentanyl test strips, a machete, and firearms.
Three paying tenants vacated the building amid safety concerns, with one stating she no longer felt safe enough to sleep there.
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