On April 9, 2024, Executive Director Yesim Sayin was quoted in the Washington Times:
“Businesses no longer consider D.C. a safe haven protected from inflation by the federal government,” Yesim Sayin, executive director of the D.C. Policy Center, told The Washington Times. “This is a big change, because in the past the District has always outperformed the nation’s economy, and now we’re seeing it lag.”
“The federal government, nobody knows who is working from the office,” Ms. Sayin added. “Since the pandemic, people are just not coming into the office as often. Furthermore, a lot of people have moved from high-cost metro areas like D.C. to smaller, lower-cost Sunbelt cities like Atlanta.”
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Additional reading: Business Sentiments Survey 2024 Quarter 1 results