“I just don’t believe she ever intended to fully fund it,” says Tazra Mitchell, chief policy and strategy officer for the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, noting that Bowser also made comments about “right-sizing” the program in last year’s budget […]
“It’s totally unfair to have locally owned businesses footing the bill for a bunch of other businesses just because their owners live outside of the District,” says Erica Williams, executive director of the left-leaning D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute and a […]
DC Fiscal Policy Institute (DCFPI) Chief Policy and Strategy Officer Tazra Mitchell fears the mayor’s budget will have cuts to social services, citing slow-growing revenues that won’t be enough to sustain current investments.
Erica Williams, executive director of the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, said in a statement the $1 million donation her nonprofit received “will bolster our ability to make critical organizational investments and pursue transformative change for D.C. […]
Tazra Mitchell, chief policy and strategy officer at the left-leaning D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, suggests the Council could even include language in the budget legislation making this point explicitly clear to strengthen its position.
Tazra Mitchell, the chief policy and strategy officer for the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, argued that money could be used elsewhere, including increasing the rental assistance budget and funding other social services. Mitchell said that, as it stands, […]
“Every dollar that is rushed to fill the reserves is one fewer dollar available to address our residents’ unmet needs,” says Tazra Mitchell, chief policy and strategy officer at the left-leaning D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute and a longtime critic of the […]
Michael Johnson Jr., a budget analyst with the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, says the $15 million number represented a cut from Mayor Muriel Bowser’s initial budget proposal.
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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, […]