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Tenant advocate warns emergency housing fund shortfall as water shutoffs and condemnations rise
Summary
At a June 4 Committee on Housing hearing, the District’s Chief Tenant Advocate told councilmembers the Office of the Tenant Advocate is running a midyear shortfall in its emergency housing fund and urged the Council to consider increasing EHAP’s annual appropriation.
Chief Tenant Advocate Johanna Shreve told the Committee on Housing on June 4 that the Office of the Tenant Advocate (OTA) faces recurring midyear pressure on its emergency housing program and requested the Council consider a larger annual appropriation.
Shreve summarized FY25 spending and shortfalls: the OTA’s FY25 approved budget was $4,175,757; the executive branch later swept $163,247 from that total, leaving an adjusted FY25 appropriation of $4,012,510. Shreve said OTA had spent about 73% of that remaining FY25 budget and that $1,114,549 remained, of which roughly $1,017,118 was personnel and $97,430 non-personnel. On EHAP specifically, OTA had spent $621,512 against an FY25 appropriation of $570,000, a deficit of $51,512; the mayor approved a $250,000 transfer to the OTA to carry it…
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