I do not like this. I do believe that $600 rent for a room in a $1.1 million spread is subsidized housing... $600 x 6 is $3,600 a month. And no, for a room on Capital Hill, it is not subsidized housing.
fyi: A 1.1 Mil dollar townhouse on Capital Hill is probably less than 30 feet wide and maybe 3 floors tall--no palace by any means. 6 bedrooms in a place like that ain't living large at all.....in fact by most American's standards it would be slumming it--honest.
Real Estate prices in the nicer (safer)parts of DC are outrageous.
Take it from a DC area native.