How can the 2025 DC Budget best serve people who need safe and affordable housing?
With COVID-era federal funds no longer available, housing funds are far tighter than in recent years. As appropriations shrink and the need for affordable housing accelerates, we must ensure that budget decisions do not lead to even greater racial and economic segregation, undermining The Fair Housing Act of 1968, and exacerbating disparities in our city.
C100 testimony before the D.C. Council during Performance Oversight Hearings concerning the Department of Housing and Community Development and the Housing Production Trust Fund, April 22, 2024
Focus on DHCD's data gap on beneficiaries of low income housing programs by race, ethnicity, age, and gender; and DHCD's inaccurate or vague reporting to HUD on its efforts to address Fair Housing Impediments.
