Kate Coventry, a senior policy analyst at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, testified at a March 31 oversight hearing that the number of newly homeless individuals is likely to skyrocket as people approach a benefits cliff.
The overall decrease is generally due to the fact that officers are leaving the force faster than MPD can replace them, according to the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute’s analysis.
And Kate Coventry, a senior policy analyst focused on homelessness at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, estimates that it’s the largest investment in vouchers for individuals in at least the past decade.
Many advocates, however, would like to see more. Kate Coventry, senior policy analyst at DC Fiscal Policy Institute, is hoping to see the council provide additional funding to serve families experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
The other appointees to the commission are Rahsaan G. Bernard, president of Building Bridges Across the River; Erica Williams, executive director of the DC Fiscal Policy Institute; Yesim Taylor, executive director of the DC Policy Center…
Kate Coventry, senior policy analyst at D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, is hoping to see the council provide additional funding to serve families experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
Silverman expressed frustration at this delay, especially since she has been pushing the agency to develop a new system since the 2008 recession, around the time she started working as communications director and policy analyst at the DC Fiscal Policy […]
Ed Lazere, the former head of the left-leaning D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute who served on the tax commission in 2013, says Catania ushered through a tax break for tech companies in 2001 that was “a complete waste of money.”
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 […]
“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.”