Monday Morning QB – February 5
WPFW • February 5, 2024
“How new laws aim to limit what schools can teach about race and racism in our nation. Plus, why local voters support progressive policy amid efforts to revise the DC tax code.”
There’s A Growing Push To Develop Social Housing In D.C. What Is It?
DCist • January 17, 2024
Unlike traditional public housing, which is owned by the federal government and managed by quasi-independent local government agencies, like the DC Housing Authority, social housing is owned by local governments themselves. That’s an important distinction, […]
First-time home buyers banked on D.C. aid. Then the city changed the rules.
The Washington Post • November 30, 2023
Eliana Golding, a housing analyst with the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, said the Bowser administration should have been able to anticipate that more than doubling homeownership aid for eligible families last year, ahead of a tough budget season, would create […]
D.C.’s Black-White Unemployment Gap Is The Worst In The Nation
DCist • August 10, 2023
“If 11% were the general unemployment rate, that would be considered a crisis and there would be a crisis response,” says Caitlin Schnur, who co-authored the DCFPI report and is the group’s deputy policy director.
East Coast mayors call for more office-to-apartment conversions
CNBC • July 15, 2023
“It’s absolutely a budget gimmick” said Erica Williams, executive director at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, referring to Bowser’s 2023 proposal to increase the downtown developer tax break.
D.C. home buyers’ assistance program is out of funds, officials say
Washington Post • July 1, 2023
“Eliana Golding at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, which has advocated for a greater increase in HPAP funding, said the program is crucial and must strive for greater consistency.”
‘A pile of assumptions’: How a long-delayed database project affected decision-making on rent caps
The DC Line • June 26, 2023
“Advocates like Golding also hope to limit rent increases further while also making it harder to remove units from rent control.”
America’s Housing Crisis Hammers Those Trying to Buy or Rent
Washington Informer • June 8, 2023
“Eliana Roberts Golding, Senior Policy Analyst for Housing and Workforce Development?at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, said it’s a question of economic policy priorities in a society that sees?housing?as a commodity and not a basic human right.”
D.C. Council caps rent hikes in rent-stabilized buildings amid inflation
Washington Post • June 7, 2023
“Having this lower cap is going back to the idea of what rent control is in the first place — it’s not a landlord protection, it’s a renter protection,” said Eliana Golding, a housing analyst at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute.