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.
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.
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.
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.
In 2020, the DC Fiscal Policy Institute (DCFPI) partnered with the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center (Urban) to create an online tool to demystify the local police budget in DC, one of the most heavily-policed jurisdictions in America.
The Washington, D.C. Admission Act would grant the more than 700,000 residents of our nation’s capital a meaningful voice and a vote in Congress, both of which D.C. residents were denied on Jan. 6, 2021.
Kate Coventry from the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute also expressed how destroying communities such as the one in Truxton Circle can at times make it harder for unhoused people to find success.
Still, other speakers said more could be done to right the wrongs from the war on drugs. Doni Crawford, a policy analyst at DCFPI, suggested that tax revenue be used to provide direct cash payments to people and families impacted by drug arrests.
Doni Crawford, a senior policy analyst with DCFPI offered amendments to the bill, including a proposal to “devote all cannabis tax revenue” and licensing fees to community reinvestment & help for residents making the transition from previous incarceration…
Doni Crawford, Senior Policy Analyst at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, said the social equity provisions written into Mendelson’s bill make it “arguably the best in the nation.”