On March 13th, the D.C. Policy Center released a report titled TOPA’s Promise and Pitfalls: Balancing tenant rights, affordability, and housing investment in Washington, D.C. The report describes the landscape of multifamily rental housing in the District, provides data on transactions subject to the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA) from 2012…

What the data sayDrawing on CoStar data in TOPA’s Promise and Pitfalls: Balancing tenant rights, affordability, and housing investment in Washington, D.C., D.C. Policy Center researchers examined multifamily market trends in submarkets across the D.C. region with at least 6,000 units. Since 2000, inventory has grown by over 50 percent across D.C.,…

Public school enrollment in D.C. has grown for three consecutive years, including a 1 percent increase in school year 2024-25. Enrollment gains were strongest in middle and high school grades, which grew by more than 2 percent, and enrollment in adult and alternative schools increased by 2.4 percent. This stands in contrast…