Mayor Bowser released a budget plan for fiscal year (FY) 2023 that acknowledges the starkly uneven recovery from the COVID-19 crisis and leverages DC’s growing revenues to take aim at longstanding inequities harming Black residents in particular. But the DC […]
Today, the Mayor released a piece of her fiscal year (FY) 2023 proposed budget, offering a window into her priorities for the coming fiscal year. While we await the rest of the budget documents, DC Fiscal Policy Institute Executive Director, Erica Williams, […]
DCFPI acknowledges the city’s resilience and growing revenue but has called on Bowser and the council “to keep the promises made last year to residents struggling the most and leverage D.C.’s growing revenue to build on our progress toward a just […]
“We know you can’t just snap your fingers and get 100 percent affordable housing in a project,” says Eliana Golding, an analyst at the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute. “But we can do a better job of asking developers to get on our page versus getting on theirs.”
DC Fiscal Policy Institute (DCFPI) urges Mayor Bowser to keep the promises that District leaders made last year to residents struggling the most and leverage DC’s growing revenue to build on our progress toward a just recovery in her upcoming FY 2022 […]
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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 […]
