Still, advocates for affordable housing and homeless services believe the mayor’s budget does not do enough to meet residents’ needs given the times.
Mayor Bowser ordered the shift on Thursday after consulting with DCHA officials, taking the combined $57 million she initially included in her 2022 budget plan for repairs at the Claridge Towers complex near Shaw and distributing it among 3 other communities.
As demand picks back up, child care programs are making some tough choices: Charge parents more than they can afford to retain staff and pay them fairly, or pay early educators less than they deserve to serve families.
A large majority of D.C. voters support raising taxes on big corporations and higher-income residents to help bankroll the city’s recovery and other goals. That’s according to the results of a new poll sponsored by DCFPI and DC Action.
Kate Coventry, a senior policy analyst at the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, said she is a bit puzzled the city isn’t setting aside money to give prospective tenants vouchers to pay rent at the buildings it acquires.
Doni Crawford, Senior Policy Analyst at the DC Fiscal Policy institute, told The Outlaw Report she was encouraged to see the new funding, though work remains to be done to create an equitable medical cannabis market in the District.
A 2020 study from the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute found that nearly a third of people experiencing homelessness in the District say incarceration played a role in their housing struggles.
According to a D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute poll, 78 percent and 72 percent of District voters support raising taxes on residents earning taxable income of $350,000 or more and $250,000 or more, respectively.
Erica Williams, the executive director of the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, said “this year’s budget is a historic opportunity to repair the damage done by the COVID-19 crisis and ‘build back better’, especially for Black and Brown residents.
Racial justice advocates have been calling on lawmakers to go farther, including by protecting cannabis consumers from employer discrimination.