In 2019, Aparna Raj was living with five friends in a group house in Washington, D.C., that had no shortage of problems. Half the house lost electricity for a time. Worse, there were rats running around. She said her landlord refused to do anything about it. “He couldn’t fix anything,” she said, “but he could send people around to collect rent from us.” “It just opened my eyes, in that moment, I didn’t know what to do and I didn’t know who to turn to,” she said. “In D.C., we do have really