
Councilmembers Call for Additional Rental Relief to Keep DC Residents Housed
Immediately after STAY DC stopped accepting applications for rent and utility assistance due to a lack of funds, Councilmembers Janeese Lewis George, Brianne Nadeau, Charles Allen, Trayon White, Robert White, Mary Cheh, Christina Henderson, Brooke Pinto, Kenyan McDuffie, and Anita Bonds introduced a Sense of the Council resolution calling on the U.S. Treasury to provide the District with additional rental and utility assistance – and calling on Mayor Bowser to act now by drawing from DC’s vast resources to dedicate local funds to preventing widespread evictions in our communities. Nearly 60% of all D.C. residents are renters, including approximately 65% of Black households and 70% of Latino families. Even