Citizens concerned about what’s to come should get hold of the DC Fiscal Policy Institute’s useful road map “A Resident’s Guide to the D.C. Budget.”
“I imagine folks are going to be pretty concerned by that, especially affordable housing developers who have been waiting through several rounds of [loan awards] to get this money,” says Eliana Golding, a senior policy analyst focused on housing at the […]
“The immediate effect [of this business model] is, there’s now a force in the market that is actively displacing tenants who do not have vouchers,” says Eliana Golding, a housing and workforce policy analyst at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute.
Schools seeing the largest impact of budget cuts are across Northeast and Southeast, particularly among D.C.’s Black and low-income communities, says Qubilah Huddleston, an analyst with the DC Fiscal Policy Institute.
As DC residents face the rising costs of basic needs like food and housing, DC policymakers should use the fiscal year (FY) 2023 supplemental and 2024 budgets to build on efforts for a racially just future.
Though many residents at McPherson may choose not to go to a shelter, “it’s important to make sure that we actually have the beds that we offer,” Coventry said.
“These are people who came from Scott Circle and the other encampments closed around the city. They’ve been shuffled around and that means it’s been hard to engage with them.”
“If there are needs within the charter sector, they should be providing more data and information to justify that,” Qubilah Huddleston, an education policy analyst at the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, tells Loose Lips.
“Councilmember Frumin has already done a lot of work trying to track down how much the city is investing in charters versus how much DCPS is getting for its facilities and whether that’s enough, and I really think those conversations will keep happening […]