How did we use the zoning standards to determine where zoning is restrictive or permissive? D.C.’s zoning standards are complicated….

The idea of imposing a “land value tax” in the District pops up from time to time. Rick Rybeck at…

The headlines from the proposed Fiscal Year 2020 Budget for the District of Columbia include $127.9 million in net new…

Last night, Mayor Bowser announced that her budget proposal would increase deed recordation and transfer taxes on commercial property valued…

Housing is the great stage on which a city is built. Housing defines how residents share the wealth created by…

The District ended 2017 with $434.1 million of reserves in its Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund. This is the highest level…

Last spring, the Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) began circulating a carbon tax proposal that would impose a gradually increasing tax on…

January 1, 2018 was the day the District fully implemented its tax reform that began in 2015. January 1 was…

First Take is a regular column by D.C. Policy Center Senior Fellow David Brunori. Some folks in the District of Columbia, including some…