“It’s absolutely a budget gimmick” said Erica Williams, executive director at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, referring to Bowser’s 2023 proposal to increase the downtown developer tax break.
“Eliana Golding at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, which has advocated for a greater increase in HPAP funding, said the program is crucial and must strive for greater consistency.”
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“Advocates like Golding also hope to limit rent increases further while also making it harder to remove units from rent control.”
Despite DC Council’s approved fiscal year (FY) 2024 budget investments in key programs, it doesn’t go far enough to meaningfully address stark racial and economic inequities.
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“Eliana Roberts Golding, Senior Policy Analyst for Housing and Workforce Development?at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, said it’s a question of economic policy priorities in a society that sees?housing?as a commodity and not a basic human right.”
“Having this lower cap is going back to the idea of what rent control is in the first place — it’s not a landlord protection, it’s a renter protection,” said Eliana Golding, a housing analyst at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute.
The D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, an organization dedicated to analyzing tax and budget data in the District, published a report in 2017 about the $300 million, which included “public land and cash subsidies through D.C.’s Tax Increment Financing (TIF) and […]
In 2017, the DC Fiscal Policy Institute…issued an analysis that said, “The District of Columbia’s economic development efforts — including the enormous Wharf project — too often support creation of low-wage jobs with minimal benefits, because they do […]