“The immediate effect [of this business model] is, there’s now a force in the market that is actively displacing tenants who do not have vouchers,” says Eliana Golding, a housing and workforce policy analyst at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute.
Schools seeing the largest impact of budget cuts are across Northeast and Southeast, particularly among D.C.’s Black and low-income communities, says Qubilah Huddleston, an analyst with the DC Fiscal Policy Institute.
Though many residents at McPherson may choose not to go to a shelter, “it’s important to make sure that we actually have the beds that we offer,” Coventry said.
“These are people who came from Scott Circle and the other encampments closed around the city. They’ve been shuffled around and that means it’s been hard to engage with them.”
“If there are needs within the charter sector, they should be providing more data and information to justify that,” Qubilah Huddleston, an education policy analyst at the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, tells Loose Lips.
“Councilmember Frumin has already done a lot of work trying to track down how much the city is investing in charters versus how much DCPS is getting for its facilities and whether that’s enough, and I really think those conversations will keep happening […]
A look at the past and present of local inequality, and how we can fight to fix it.
“There were two really important studies that came out last week, one from the DC Fiscal Policy Institute and one from the Federal City Council, both of them pointing to significant economic impact on the District that we are not a state.”
With fewer restrictions and the over $3 billion in potential revenue statehood would offer, the District could take greater steps to minimize economic struggle…
“This is really a racial and economic justice issue,” said Erica Williams, Executive Director of the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute.