D.C. Council to pull more police from schools, give tax credit to immigrants
“Bowser had proposed allotting a record half-billion dollars in one year to the city’s Housing Production Trust Fund, which subsidizes developers’ construction of designated affordable housing for people at certain income levels. Mendelson cut that by about $54 million, putting that money instead into permanent housing vouchers, known as Targeted Affordable Housing, that cover rent indefinitely for low-income families. He included a clause in the budget directing the city to give families who cannot pay their rent after the expiration of their short-term housing subsidy first priority for the 400 new vouchers.”