On December 10, 2024, Director of Research and Policy Emilia Calma’s testimony was featured by WUSA9: “Currently, landlords have little recourse to stop illegal tenant behavior. The only power landlords have to deter criminal activity is the threat of eviction. However, while evictions used to take three to six months, now they…

On December 10, 2024, a D.C. Policy Center report was cited by NBC4 Washington: In D.C., children were twice as likely to be victims or witnesses of violence compared to the national average, a study by the DC Policy Center found. Read More: ‘I tell her it’s fireworks’: How DC shootings affected 564…

D.C. has a high degree of public-school choice, with the majority of students and families in D.C. choosing to attend a school other than their in-boundary school. A 2021 survey of parents in the D.C. area revealed that school quality was the top reason for making a decision about where their students…