Economic Security is for Everyone, No Exceptions
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • April 7, 2022 • Income & Poverty
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First Look at Mayor Bowser’s Budget Reveals Major Investments in Housing Affordability, Racial Equity, but Unmet Need for DC’s Most Excluded
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • March 28, 2022 • Revenue & Budget
Mayor Bowser released a budget plan for fiscal year (FY) 2023 that acknowledges the starkly uneven recovery from the COVID-19 crisis and leverages DC’s growing revenues to take aim at longstanding inequities harming Black residents in particular. But the DC […]
Mayor’s Budget Proposal Will Help Meet Residents’ Urgent Needs
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • March 16, 2022 • Revenue & Budget
Today, the Mayor released a piece of her fiscal year (FY) 2023 proposed budget, offering a window into her priorities for the coming fiscal year. While we await the rest of the budget documents, DC Fiscal Policy Institute Executive Director, Erica Williams, […]
D.C. Contemplates Mayor Bowser’s New Budget
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • March 15, 2022 • Revenue & Budget
DCFPI acknowledges the city’s resilience and growing revenue but has called on Bowser and the council “to keep the promises made last year to residents struggling the most and leverage D.C.’s growing revenue to build on our progress toward a just […]
Candidates Like Robert White Want To Change How D.C. Develops Public Land. Could It Make a Difference to the Housing Crisis?
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • March 3, 2022 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness
“We know you can’t just snap your fingers and get 100 percent affordable housing in a project,” says Eliana Golding, an analyst at the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute. “But we can do a better job of asking developers to get on our page versus getting on theirs.”
Revised Revenue Estimates Show DC Can Do More to Support Struggling Residents
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • March 2, 2022 • Revenue & Budget
DC Fiscal Policy Institute (DCFPI) urges Mayor Bowser to keep the promises that District leaders made last year to residents struggling the most and leverage DC’s growing revenue to build on our progress toward a just recovery in her upcoming FY 2022 […]
Just Recovery DC – A Winning Campaign Timeline
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • March 1, 2022 • Taxes
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Testimony on the Need for Services for Residents with Traumatic Brain Injuries
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • February 28, 2022 • Health Equity / Homelessness
This testimony is focused on the need for services for residents with low incomes who have traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), also known as acquired brain injuries (ABIs), and the need to simplify the DC Healthcare Alliance recertification process.
Testimony of Kate Coventry At the Performance Oversight Hearing on the Department of Human Services
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • February 24, 2022 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness / Health Equity
Chairperson Nadeau and members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today. My name is Kate Coventry, and I am a senior policy analyst at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute (DCFPI). DCFPI is a nonprofit organization that promotes budget […]
DC Council cites rent relief as one priority for the District’s $923.8 million in unallocated funds
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • February 23, 2022
As the DC Fiscal Policy Institute (DCFPI) wrote in a letter in late January to Bowser and the council, over 40,000 families are at risk of being evicted for non-payment of rent now that the eviction moratorium is lifted.