This testimony is focused on the need for services for residents with low incomes who have traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), also known as acquired brain injuries (ABIs), and the need to simplify the DC Healthcare Alliance recertification process.
Chairperson Nadeau and members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today. My name is Kate Coventry, and I am a senior policy analyst at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute (DCFPI). DCFPI is a nonprofit organization that promotes budget […]
As the DC Fiscal Policy Institute (DCFPI) wrote in a letter in late January to Bowser and the council, over 40,000 families are at risk of being evicted for non-payment of rent now that the eviction moratorium is lifted.
Two years after the city first shut down in response to COVID-19, not all of DC’s residents are on the path to recovery. There remains a huge gap between the city’s wealthier, largely white, residents and its Black and brown residents, who are […]
For permanent supportive housing applicants who were born in the District, the process to get these documents is fairly straightforward, according to Kate Coventry, a senior policy analyst at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute.
I am here today to ask you to reject the proposed regulations for locally-funded vouchers or amend them to allow applicants to self-certify their identity and to ensure that residents are not excluded from the program because of immigration status or […]
Tazra Mitchell, the policy director at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, said there’s an economic imperative to stopping evictions in the District as well as a moral one.
An eviction crisis would deepen racial, economic and housing oppression in the District and stifle our ability to rebuild a prosperous economy. Averting this crisis is the right call, and dozens of organizations, including ours, are urging DC officials to act
