DC’s Earned Income Tax Credit: A Powerful Tool for Racial, Gender, and Economic Equity
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • February 18, 2022 • Income & Poverty / Taxes
Housing advocates propose solutions to ‘inefficient’ DCHA processes for vouchers
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • February 16, 2022 • Homelessness
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.
Local organizations call for use of surplus funds to address eviction crisis
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • February 9, 2022 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness / Revenue & Budget
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.
Kimberly Perry and Tazra Mitchell: Mayor Bowser has warned about an eviction crisis. It’s up to her to act.
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • February 9, 2022 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness / Revenue & Budget
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
As D.C. Embarks On Budget Season, Bowser Announces $200 Million Infusion For Schools
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • February 8, 2022 • Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education
Qubilah Huddleston, an education policy analyst at the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, which conducts research on budgets, said the spending increases sound “great overall.” But she said she wants more information about how the money will be spent.
Principles for Sustaining an Equitable Recovery
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • February 8, 2022 • Revenue & Budget
Growing wages and salaries, investment income, and business profits are boosting DC’s revenues, but not all of the District’s residents are on the path to recovery. There remains a huge gap between the city’s wealthier, largely white, residents and its […]
D.C. Housing Advocates Want More Rental Assistance
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • February 7, 2022 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness
Late last month, 38 organizations, including the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, Bread for the City, and Miriam’s Kitchen, called on Mayor Muriel Bowser to use roughly $500 million in reserve and surplus funding to immediately halt future evictions.
Mary Cheh Launches into Fact-Free Rant on Crime Following Van Ness Shooting
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • February 1, 2022
There’s no research suggesting that unhoused people who are offered homes contribute to a rise in crime in their new communities, a point that Kate Coventry of the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute raised on Twitter Friday.
Education advocates to mayor: DCPS technology investments still needed to address digital divide
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • January 31, 2022 • Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education
This month, a coalition of parents, educators & other education advocates sent a version of the letter below urging Mayor Bowser to commit funding for DC Public Schools technology tools and infrastructure to ensure equitable technology access for all students.