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Council questions DMPED housing, preservation and neighborhood funding in FY2026 plan
Summary
Council members pressed the Deputy Mayor on how the FY2026 budget would deliver housing across the city — covering preservation, production in high-need neighborhoods, St. Elizabeth's, Fletcher Johnson, East Capital Gateway and downtown conversion incentives.
Council members used the Committee's FY2026 oversight hearing to press the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development about how the mayor's proposed budget supports housing production and preservation across the District.
Why it matters: The testimony addressed a recurring policy tension — using limited capital resources to produce new affordable units while preserving aging private housing stock — and asked how DMPED's portfolio supports equity and ward-level outcomes.
Questions from the committee Chair Kenya McDuffie and Councilmembers asked DMPED officials to describe deployments outside downtown and how the administration is prioritizing projects in high-need areas. Councilmembers requested numbers and milestones for the Housing in Downtown incentive (housing-in-downtown), asked why the FY27 budget reduced the housing-in-downtown allocation from earlier projections, and requested a list of projects expected to use the program.
DMPED response and status updates Deputy Mayor…
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