Featured Publications & Resources
Report
Meeting DC’s Challenges, Maintaining Fiscal Discipline: Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods by Increasing Incomes and Reducing Poverty
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • February 1, 2007 • Income & Poverty / Revenue & Budget / TANF & Income Support / Taxes
Report
Taxes on DC Families Are Now the Lowest in the Washington Region
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • September 20, 2006 • Revenue & Budget / Taxes
Report
Subsidized Homeownership Programs Can Help Low-Income Families Build Assets Even When Combined with Long-Term Affordability Controls
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • September 18, 2006 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness / Revenue & Budget / Taxes
Report
Property Tax Relief Will Leave 2006 Tax Bills Lower Than 2005 Tax Bills For Most DC Homeowners
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • February 28, 2006 • Revenue & Budget / Taxes
Testimony
Testimony of Ed Lazere, Executive Director DC Fiscal Policy Institute, At the Public Oversight Hearing on The Status of Baseball Operations and Financing, District of Columbia on Economic Development District of Columbia Committee on Finance and Revenue
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • November 30, 2005 • Revenue & Budget / Taxes
Report
A New Federal Contribution To The District of Columbia? The Need, Likely Impact, and Some Options
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • November 16, 2005 • Revenue & Budget / Taxes
Report
Proposal to Reduce Ballpark Fee Would Shift Up to $60 million in Stadium Costs from Businesses to the General Public
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • November 16, 2005 • Revenue & Budget / Taxes
Report
What Would Suspending the Last Step of the Taxparity Act Mean for DC Households
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • November 3, 2005 • Revenue & Budget / Taxes
Report
Property Tax Relief Issues
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • June 1, 2005 • Revenue & Budget / Taxes
Testimony
Testimony of Ed Lazere on Property Tax Increase Caps
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • March 18, 2005 • Revenue & Budget / Taxes
All Publications & Resources
Press Release
Leaders of Direct Service, Anti-Poverty Organizations in Letter to DC Council: “We are Deeply Alarmed by Proposed Budget”
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • July 1, 2025
Testimony
The Council Must Fund Childcare in DC
By Anne Gunderson • June 17, 2025 • Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education
Press Release
Trump’s Military Parade Another Imposition on District Residents
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • June 17, 2025
In The News
Bowser Budget Proposal Would Scale Back Health Care for Immigrants, Others
The Washington Post • June 16, 2025
In The News
Bowser's budget would avoid tax hikes, move 25K DC residents off Medicaid
NBC News Washington • June 16, 2025
Testimony
The DC Budget Needs to Equitably Grow the Economy
By Shira Markoff • June 12, 2025 • Revenue & Budget
Testimony
The Council Needs to Improve Nutrition for Residents Incarcerated in the DOC
By Connor Zielinski • June 12, 2025 • Health Equity
