Initial School Budgets Show DCPS Needs a Plan to Ensure Equitable Funding and Stability
By Qubilah Huddleston • February 24, 2023 • Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education
[…]
Underfunding and Implementation Delays Undermine Progress Toward Ending Homelessness
By Kate Coventry • February 23, 2023 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness / Homelessness
[…]
End Encampment Clearings and No Camping Zones
By Kate Coventry • February 16, 2023 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness / Homelessness
[…]
With Rising Costs and Continued Hardship, DC Budget Must Sustain Focus on Racial Justice
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • February 14, 2023 • Revenue & Budget
As DC residents face the rising costs of basic needs like food and housing, DC policymakers should use the fiscal year (FY) 2023 supplemental and 2024 budgets to build on efforts for a racially just future.
DC Must Better Address the Behavioral Health Needs of Students of Color and Girls
By Qubilah Huddleston • February 1, 2023 • Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education / Health Equity
[…]
The High Cost of Denying Statehood to the District of Columbia
By Erica Williams and Nikki Metzgar • January 19, 2023 • DC Statehood
[…]
DC’s Tools to Create and Preserve Affordable Housing
By Eliana Golding • December 22, 2022 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness
As prosperity and population in DC grow, residents with low incomes increasingly struggle with the District’s high and rising housing costs.
Latinas in DC Earn 64 Cents For Every Dollar Earned by White, Non-Hispanic Men
By Nikki Metzgar • December 8, 2022 • Inclusive Economy / Income & Poverty
For Latinas in DC, the picture is less egregious, but still stark. Latinas earn 64 percent of what white, non-Hispanic men do in a year and it takes them nearly 19 months to make up the difference…
Testimony on the Green New Deal for Housing Amendment Act of 2022
By Eliana Golding • November 22, 2022 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness
[…]
