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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.

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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 […]

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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