DC Council Must Prioritize Displacement Prevention and Affordable Housing Preservation
By Eliana Golding • February 15, 2024 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness
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A Holistic and Reparative Agenda for Ending Displacement in DC
By Eliana Golding • November 15, 2023 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness
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Better Targeted Property Tax Benefits Would Advance Racial Equity
By Eliana Golding and Erica Williams • October 19, 2023 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness / Revenue & Budget / Taxes
By better targeting property tax benefits, the District could free up revenue to expand much-needed programs.
DC Can Advance Racial Equity and Black Homeownership through the Property Tax
By Eliana Golding • October 17, 2023 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness / Revenue & Budget / Taxes
DC’s single-rate property tax imposes the same rate on $300,000 homes as it does on multi-million-dollar homes. By taxing residential property more progressively, the District would help correct the racist harm of past policies in the tax system and raise […]
Council Must Invest in Affordable Housing Preservation to Prevent Displacement
By Eliana Golding • April 3, 2023 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness / Revenue & Budget
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DC’s Tools to Create and Preserve Affordable Housing
By Eliana Golding • December 22, 2022 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness
As prosperity and population in DC grow, residents with low incomes increasingly struggle with the District’s high and rising housing costs.
Testimony on the Green New Deal for Housing Amendment Act of 2022
By Eliana Golding • November 22, 2022 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness
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Major Housing Production Investments in FY 2023 Budget Fall Short of Holistic, Anti-Displacement Strategy
By Eliana Golding • June 23, 2022 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness
Given the enormity of its affordable housing crisis, the District needs a thoughtful anti-displacement strategy that pairs long-term solutions with programs that meet residents’ urgent needs, and strong oversight of both.
Groundbreaking Investments in Affordable Housing Should Come With Increased Transparency and Oversight
By Eliana Golding • April 26, 2022 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness
Creating and preserving truly affordable housing is critical to disrupting historical harm and advancing racial equity in the District and this massive investment could go a long way towards addressing DC’s affordable housing crisis
Testimony at the DC Council Committee of the Whole Budget Oversight Hearing on Housing and Homelessness
By Eliana Golding • April 8, 2022 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness / Revenue & Budget
Today, I will focus my testimony on the need to make essential investments in the Fiscal Year 2023 budget to both end homelessness and to ensure that the District is on a path to creating and preserving truly affordable housing