The federal American Rescue Plan (ARP) offers a historic opportunity for the District to “build back better” by investing in our residents and communities. In addition to dedicated funding for homelessness, the District will receive $2.3 billion in […]
My written testimony includes recommendations on the eviction moratorium, STAY DC, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Interim Disability Assistance, homelessness, and American Rescue Plan (ARP) funding.
B24-0106 sets tenant eligibility screening standards for landlords. Given overwhelming evidence that current tenant-screening processes are rife with errors, this legislation is needed to ensure fairness in this process.
Lawmakers must use this pivotal moment to reform DC’s tax code and advance racial equity. To create a strong and just recovery and better future, these reforms must include higher income taxes on the wealthiest residents.
The unequal effects of the pandemic on Black, brown, immigrant, and low-income children and families—like the exacerbation of the digital divide and housing, food, and economic instability—threaten to deepen DC’s already wide and persistent racial and […]
Nearly 80 organizations organizations sent Mayor Bowser and the DC Council a letter urging them to use the funds on intentional investments and interventions in a timely way, with a laser focus on targeting those most in need and addressing the racial […]
The $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package passed by Congress in March–the American Rescue Plan (ARP)–is an unprecedented opportunity for the District to truly “build back better.”
DCFPI is concerned that the affordability level set in the law and enforced through the regulations is not sufficiently affordable to justify the use of District dollars.
Today, on 4/20, many Americans are reflecting upon the nation’s racist history of cannabis prohibition and the criminalization of Black and brown people and communities.
DCFPI strongly supports a more simplified DC expungement process, an expansion of expungement-eligible offenses, and automatic expungement for decriminalized offenses, as envisioned in the Record Expungement Simplification to Offer Relief and Equity (RESTORE) […]
