The American Rescue Plan Is The Relief DC Residents Need
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • March 11, 2021 • COVID-19
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For Small Businesses In Anacostia, The Pandemic Was Just Another Storm To Weather
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • March 11, 2021 • COVID-19 / Inclusive Economy
According to the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, most Black-owned businesses in the U.S. — and many in wards 7 and 8 — are sole proprietorships, meaning they’re run by one person. That makes it harder to track statistics like foot traffic and revenue.
McDuffie Wants to See Fiscal Incentives in D.C.
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • March 10, 2021 • Income & Poverty / Revenue & Budget
Tarza Mitchell, the policy director at DCFPI, said the District “has one of the largest Black-to-white wealth and income gaps in the nation and the median racial wealth gap actually grows with higher education levels.”
How The New COVID Stimulus Bill Could Impact Business, Metro, And Child Poverty In The D.C. Region
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • March 10, 2021 • COVID-19 / Income & Poverty
“And what this package would do is provide essential stabilization dollars for families and businesses right now that make a huge investment in their lives ongoing over the next 10 years,” says Tazra Mitchell of the left-leaning D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute.
Los Angeles vs Washington D.C. In the Anti-Displacement Policy Race
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • March 8, 2021 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness / COVID-19
According to a report by DC Fiscal Policy Institute, FRPP has preserved 1,400 affordable housing units since 2002—units that will remain affordable for the next 40 years.
D.C. Housing Authority could get a $60M infusion to jump-start repairs, redevelopments
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • March 3, 2021 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness
Momentum is building among D.C. lawmakers and advocates to make another hefty investment in repairing and redeveloping the D.C. Housing Authority’s most troubled properties.
Progressive Lawmakers Are Considering Raising Taxes On The Rich. Should They?
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • March 2, 2021 • Revenue & Budget / Taxes
Well-off Washingtonians could be hit with a tax hike under a proposal in the works that aims to shore up the District’s pandemic-plagued coffers.
Rental Advisory Needed
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • February 26, 2021 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness / COVID-19
By the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute executive’s estimates, about 40% of D.C.’s low-income households devoted more than a third of their monthly income to paying rent — the federal standard for determining if someone is “cost burdened” by housing prices.
A Worsening Housing Gap
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • February 26, 2021 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness / COVID-19
The pandemic has financially crippled lower-income D.C.-area renters with very little hope of recovery, disproportionately affecting people of color, according to Census surveys.
An amendment 4 years in the making, with massive implications for affordable housing in DC, to be voted on in March
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • February 24, 2021 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness / Income & Poverty
The D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute article showed that 90% of households most in need of affordable housing are Black and brown and spend more than 50% of their income on rent.