The Washington Times, February 9th, 2000
D.C. officials spend $484,000 a month to rent six properties they acknowledge as being vacant or barely used, according to an official inventory of the city's rented properties.
Moreover, the leases for 36 of the 82 properties rented by the city have expired, and seven of those leases expired in the 1980s, the inventory shows. The District spends nearly $400,000 each month on expired leases for properties still occupied by city agencies.
The Washington Times has obtained a copy of the inventory and has examined some of the properties identified in it.
The fire-gutted building at 1480 Gira...
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