Here's a handy chart showing all the additions to housing programs. The big bullets:
-477 new vouchers, mostly in permanent supportive housing
-Another $6.7M for emergency rental assistance (ERAP)
-Additional $21 for the Housing Production Trust Fund for affordable development
🚨 The first vote on the FY 2025 budget is tomorrow! 🚨
The Chairman has circulated his FY 2025 budget proposal ahead of tomorrow’s vote. You can find it on our website, along with everything budget: https://t.co/QBQpihMfPg
You can compare the major revenue sources, like income taxes, property taxes, and sales taxes, and see smaller sources like the hotel tax, estate tax, or charges for services (such as ambulance rides).
Want an overview of the changes to law needed for the Mayor’s proposed FY25 budget? Read our fiscal impact statement, which summarizes these changes and outlines their financial implications https://t.co/0pIVV5OsrC
Bookmark this page! We will be updating it with more information as it becomes available, such as adding links to the various pieces of budget legislation.
https://t.co/QBQpihMfPg
🚨 The budget is out! 🚨
The Mayor's FY 2025 proposed budget has been released. You can find it on our FY 2025 budget landing page here:
https://t.co/QBQpihMfPg
Just announced at tonight’s #ICFJawards: @NBCNews Senior Vice President for Politics @cbudoffbrown will be the next chair of the @ICFJ Board of Directors.
What an absolutely fantastic pick! Nina is smart, kind and genuinely knows economic development. I am so excited for DC to have a woman in this job who knows how to get stuff done!
#BREAKING NEWS. DC Mayor Muriel Bowser is appointing Nina Albert, a top leader of the federal General Services Administration, as the mayor's next deputy mayor for planning and economic development, sources say. Albert’s last day at GSA is Friday. @WCP
To celebrate, we updated our Budget Lookup Tool for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, where you can analyze every agency’s approved budget for this new fiscal year.
https://t.co/EtcMkkFU4z
@maustermuhle@wamu885@DCist Congratulations on your new adventure! Your reporting was always spot on and accurately reflected the complicated nuances of what was happening. We will miss you.
The new revenue estimates are out!
Every quarter, the Office of the Chief Financial Officer updates their estimates of how much tax revenue DC will take in.
The newest June estates show *no change* from the February estimates.
See our latest chart showing historical context:
And the D.C. Council unanimously approves the 2024 Budget Support Act, thus officially closing out the budget season for the year. (Hear a massive sigh of relief? That's @dccouncilbudget.) Let's never do that again. Well, for another year, at least.
ICYMI: **tomorrow** the @councilofdc takes its second vote on next year's budget.
Find the Chairman's amendments in the nature of a substitute here, along with all other budget docs: https://t.co/QCErIDlMCe
See how to watch the meeting here: https://t.co/p67ds51Wm6