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Providers ask D.C. housing committee to fund more supportive vouchers and speed the voucher-to-lease process
Summary
Service providers and advocates at the May 30 hearing urged the Committee on Housing to increase permanent supportive housing (PSH) vouchers for single adults and to back an externally facilitated process review to cut the lease-up timeline to 90 days.
Representatives from service providers told the Committee on Housing that D.C. must invest in permanent supportive housing (PSH) for single adults and fix backlogged voucher processes that delay placement of people experiencing chronic homelessness.
“Permanent supportive housing is a nationally recognized housing-first best practice,” said Andy Wosnick, director of policy at Miriam’s Kitchen, which leads the Way Home Campaign. He told the committee the Mayor’s proposed FY26 budget includes no PSH vouchers for single adults and urged the Council to fund PSH vouchers at the campaign’s recommended pace.
Wosnick and Community of Hope President and CEO Kelly Sweeney McShane described progress…
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