DCFPI Receives $1,000,000 in Grant Funding From the Greater Washington Community Foundation’s Health Equity Fund
DCFPI will use the funds from this grant to advance a liberatory policy agenda that roots out anti-Blackness and repairs racist harms…
DCFPI will use the funds from this grant to advance a liberatory policy agenda that roots out anti-Blackness and repairs racist harms…
“Advocates like Golding also hope to limit rent increases further while also making it harder to remove units from rent control.”
Despite DC Council’s approved fiscal year (FY) 2024 budget investments in key programs, it doesn’t go far enough to meaningfully address stark racial and economic inequities.
Today, the DC Fiscal Policy Institute (DCFPI) launches the Momentum for Change fundraising campaign to raise $200,000 in 2023.
As we observe Juneteenth, DC and the country should (re)commit to repairing the harms of our past and its compounding negative effects in our current day.
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“Eliana Roberts Golding, Senior Policy Analyst for Housing and Workforce Development?at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, said it’s a question of economic policy priorities in a society that sees?housing?as a commodity and not a basic human right.”
“Having this lower cap is going back to the idea of what rent control is in the first place — it’s not a landlord protection, it’s a renter protection,” said Eliana Golding, a housing analyst at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute.