A neglected cluster of buildings is slated to be redeveloped into affordable housing after tenants took their landlord to court.

Since 2016, Sanford and related companies in D.C. have faced legal action for violating housing codes and keeping properties in disrepair.

This is the second time D.C. Attorney General Racine sued developer Sanford Capital over housing conditions.

“Tenants should not be forced to choose between living in unsafe and uninhabitable conditions or leaving their residences.”

It took two years of a steady drumbeat of complaints about the squalor at four buildings in Congress Heights for the city to step.

Tenants at a complex around the Metro station say they are being subjected to slum-like conditions so they’ll move out before being able to exercise their rights to buy the building.