D.C.’s housing fund falls short of requirement to aid lowest-income renters

Eliana Golding, a housing analyst at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute who has closely tracked the HPTF under the Bowser’s administration, said that to the fund’s credit, it’s positive that the money is still going toward affordable housing broadly — “it’s not like they’re sending the money off into the ether or spending it on market-rate housing,” she said.