Over 50 Organizations and Experts Demand That the DC Council Reform Rapid Re-housing

Posted on Apr 7, 2022 in Clients, DC Budget, DC Policies and Plans, Homelessness, Housing, Law, Poverty, Uncategorized, Wealth Gap | 0 comments

The following letter was submitted to the DC Council on behalf of 69 organizations and experts. Don’t forget to send an email and sign up for a call-in day echoing these asks to your elected leaders! DC Council members, We, the undersigned organizations, join together to ask you to stop Mayor Bowser from terminating DC residents from the rapid re-housing program for hitting an arbitrary time limit. This year, as many as 913 families are...

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Legal Clinic Priorities for Funding and Reform in 2022

Posted on Mar 17, 2022 in Advocates, Clients, DC Budget, DC Policies and Plans, Homelessness, Housing, Justice, Law, People, Shelter, Wealth Gap | 0 comments

Despite living in a well-resourced District of Columbia, DC residents are facing homelessness, housing instability, and crisis-level lack of affordable housing every day, so there is much work to be done to address these issues in DC in order to further housing justice. The budget process is an opportunity to do just that.

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After the first vote, what’s in the budget for housing and homelessness?

Posted on Jul 29, 2021 in Advocates, DC Budget, Homelessness, Housing, Justice, People, Poverty, Shelter, Wealth Gap | 0 comments

On July 20, the DC Council took its first vote on DC’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 budget, and we are looking ahead to the final vote on August 3. With the end of the FY22 budget season on the horizon, here is how our housing and homelessness priorities have fared in the budget process thus far.

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Council Must Prevent More Evictions and Protect Tenant Rights

Posted on Jul 12, 2021 in DC Budget, DC Policies and Plans, Homelessness, Housing, Justice, Law, Wealth Gap | 0 comments

Tomorrow, the DC Council will vote on an emergency bill that will begin phasing in evictions again in DC. Since March of 2020, an eviction moratorium has been in place that is tied to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. Mayor Bowser has told the DC Council that she does not intend to extend the Public Health Emergency past July 25. The bill before the Council has some good parts, and some parts that could stand to be improved.

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