On April 2, 2026, Executive Director Yesim Sayin was quoted in Housing Wire:
“Allowing single-stair buildings at modest heights does not create a new class of high-risk construction,” Yesim Sayin, D.C. Policy Center’s executive director, said in testimony at a January hearing on the ordinance. “It enables small walk-ups and adaptive reuse projects to be built more efficiently—projects that sit squarely between single-family homes and high-rise towers. These are precisely the housing types that many neighborhoods say they want and that the District chronically underproduces.”
Read more: D.C. pushes single-stair apartments higher with added safety rules
Additional reading: Reducing regulatory barriers to housing production in the District of Columbia