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Domestic‑violence housing providers warn federal freeze would close services; call for local baseline funding
Summary
Domestic‑violence service providers told the council that a recent federal order briefly threatening grant payments — later paused by a federal judge — underscored the need for stable city funding to keep shelters and survivor programs operating.
Domestic‑violence service providers told the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety that gaps in stable local funding would force lifesaving shelters and survivor programs to reduce services or close if federal grants were paused.
At the Jan. 29 oversight hearing on the Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants (OVSJG), witnesses from the District Alliance for Safe Housing (DASH), DC Safe, the D.C. Coalition Against Domestic Violence (DCCADV) and other members of the Victim Assistance Network (VAN) described how OVSJG‑funded housing programs support survivors at immediate and longer‑term stages of recovery.
DASH described two OVSJG‑supported housing programs: Cornerstone (emergency housing) and the Empowerment Project (a scattered‑site transitional housing program). DASH said its programs prevented housing instability for 305 people in FY24, and it reported…
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