Funding ERAP is a Moral Obligation, Not a Moral Hazard
The Mayor’s shocking proposal to slash ERAP flies in the face of urgent, demonstrated need for rental assistance.
The Mayor’s shocking proposal to slash ERAP flies in the face of urgent, demonstrated need for rental assistance.
It is too soon to know how much of the movement away from the District and other cities was permanent, said Erica Williams, executive director of the DC Fiscal Policy Institute.
“No one thinks we are done needing vouchers,” said Kate Coventry, deputy director of legislative strategy at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute.
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“What happens now is, people are in prisons across the country, and some of them have access to programming and some don’t,” said Kate Coventry, the DCFPI’s deputy director of legislative strategy. “It’s just really uneven.”
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Citizens concerned about what’s to come should get hold of the DC Fiscal Policy Institute’s useful road map “A Resident’s Guide to the D.C. Budget.”
“I imagine folks are going to be pretty concerned by that, especially affordable housing developers who have been waiting through several rounds of [loan awards] to get this money,” says Eliana Golding, a senior policy analyst focused on housing at the […]
“The immediate effect [of this business model] is, there’s now a force in the market that is actively displacing tenants who do not have vouchers,” says Eliana Golding, a housing and workforce policy analyst at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute.
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