Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free.

Fall is a lovely time of year, particularly here in D.C., where capital residents are blessed with the two weeks of pleasant weather we get each year. It's hard not to be happy when the air is crisp, the sun is shining, and the temperature is hovering in the mid-70s.

The only people suffering are journalists trying to find newsy housing policy content for their weekly newsletter when state legislatures are out of session and the federal government has shut itself down.

Fortunately, local policymaking and politicking continue. The courts are still making decisions in land-use cases. That gives us something to talk about.

To supplement those sources of news during these autumnal doldrums, I figured this week's lead item would ta

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