Comments on: Nowhere To Go: As DC Housing Costs Rise, Residents Are Left With Fewer Affordable Housing Options

By: OccupyDC & The “People’s Pentagon”: The Politics of Housing | Orchestrated Pulse

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:37:45 +0000

[...] lost a third of its low-cost rental units from 2000 to 2007, at the height of the housing boom, according to a 2010 study by the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute. Many dwellings that have been built since are for upper-income brackets. Meanwhile, rents continue [...]

By: Long Lines Not for Flat Screen TVs but for Affordable Housing « OP-e

Long Lines Not for Flat Screen TVs but for Affordable Housing « OP-e — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:14:51 +0000

[...] DC Fiscal Policy Institute reports that the housing market boom of the past decade contributed to the growing affordable housing [...]

By: Big Takeaways From The Homeless Services Reform Act Hearing « Poverty & Policy

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 12:04:57 +0000

[...] his department is facing come mainly from the growing dearth of affordable housing. Seems that cutbacks there have been truly a pennywise [...]

By: Thank You For Speaking Out…Your Voices Have Been Heard! | …With Housing and Justice For All

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:41:36 +0000

[...] impact of the recession on the District, where more than 1 in 4 children lives in poverty; a growing shortage of affordable housing; a lack of funding for emergency rental assistance to prevent people from [...]

By: More Grim News About The Affordable Housing Crunch « Poverty & Policy

More Grim News About The Affordable Housing Crunch « Poverty & Policy — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:27:27 +0000

[...] Shrinkage in the District of Columbia has been more dramatic — more than a third of low-cost rental units lost during about the same time period. [...]

By: DC Coalition Launches Comprehensive Affordable Housing Campaign « Poverty & Policy

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:53:52 +0000

[...] Comprehensive Housing Task Force issued its report. But, as the DC Fiscal Policy Institute has tells us, funding for these programs has been cut nearly 50% in the last two [...]

By: Council on the Road to Making Rent Control Permanent—Which Could Get Sticky - Housing Complex - Washington City Paper

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:27:34 +0000

[...] advocates argue that the shortage of affordable rental housing in the District makes long-term protections essential for ensuring the stability and quality of the [...]

By: Data For That Sense of Being Gouged: D.C. Has the Second Highest Rents in the Country - Housing Complex - Washington City Paper

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:15:39 +0000

[...] and behind Washington and Oregon. But it does dovetail with what the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute has been saying about poverty and housing availability in the [...]

By: Interesting Article - Northern Virginia - Virginia (VA) - City-Data Forum

Interesting Article - Northern Virginia - Virginia (VA) - City-Data Forum — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:23:12 +0000

[...] Interesting Article Nowhere To Go: As DC Housing Costs Rise, Residents Are Left With Fewer Affordable Housing Options http://dcfpi.org/?p=1486 [...]

By: Eli Broad… Rents up in DC… Walmart Foundation’s “My Free Taxes” campaign [News, 2.8.10] « Washington Grantmakers Daily

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:40:00 +0000

[...] AFFORDABLE HOUSING | Fewer D.C. affordable housing options left as city rents rise (WaPo, 2/6). Rents have grown faster in DC than in most major cities. More from DCFPI. [...]