Featured Publications & Resources
Testimony
DCFPI Testimony on Sales Tax Holiday Amendment Act of 2003
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • May 5, 2004 • Inclusive Economy / Revenue & Budget / Taxes
Report
The DC Tax System Is Regressive and Tax Burdens on Near-Poor Families Have Increased Since 1989
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • April 20, 2004 • Revenue & Budget / Taxes
Report
Concerns with the Mayor’s Proposed Changes To the Housing Production Trust Fund
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • April 19, 2004 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness
Testimony
DCFPI Testimony on the FY 2005 Budget Support Act of 2004
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • April 19, 2004 • Revenue & Budget
Report
Trends in Tax Rates in the District of Columbia
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • April 15, 2004 • Revenue & Budget / Taxes
Report
Has Spending Per Poor Person Grown Since 1990?
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • March 24, 2004 • Income & Poverty / Revenue & Budget
Report
The Untold Story of the DC Budget: Overall Spending Has Grown Only Modestly Since 1990 but Support for Services to Low-income Residents Has Fallen Sharply
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • March 16, 2004 • Revenue & Budget
Testimony
Testimony of Idara Nickelson, Policy Analyst, DC Fiscal Policy Institute At the Public Hearing on Fiscal Year 2003 and Fiscal Year 2004 Spending and Performance by the Department of Human Services
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • March 4, 2004 • Income & Poverty / Revenue & Budget / TANF & Income Support
Testimony
Testimony of Ed Lazere, Executive Director, DC Fiscal Policy Institute At the Community Participation Hearing on “The District’s Draft HUD Section 108 Loan Guarantee Application for the DC USA Project and Proposed Modification to the FY 2004 Consolidated Plan Action Planâ€
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • February 28, 2004 • Inclusive Economy / Revenue & Budget / Taxes
Report
What Kind of Property Tax Relief Should DC Provide?
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • January 15, 2004 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness / Revenue & Budget / Taxes
All Publications & Resources
Report
DC Council Can Expand Affordable Housing and Spur Investment Without Gutting Tenant Rights
By Mychal Cohen • September 16, 2025 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness
Blog
Inequality Remained Extreme in 2024 as DC Backslid on Poverty
By Connor Zielinski • September 15, 2025 • Income & Poverty
Press Release
DC Fiscal Policy Institute Launches the Advocacy Xccelerator Fund
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • September 9, 2025
Report
Repealing Harsh Income Rules Will Help Unhoused Residents Access Assisted Living
By Kate Coventry • September 3, 2025 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness
Press Release
Mayor Bowser Paves the Way for More Federal Overreach
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • September 3, 2025
Budget Resource Page
What’s in the Fiscal Year 2026 DC Budget?
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • August 25, 2025 • Revenue & Budget
Report
The Devastating Economic and Human Toll of Mass Deportation
By Shira Markoff • August 18, 2025 • Inclusive Economy
Press Release
DC Fiscal Policy Institute Selected for Spur Local’s 2025 Class
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • August 1, 2025
In The News
Final budget passes D.C. Council without increases to homeless services
Street Sense Media • July 30, 2025
