D.C.’s budget will help the city implement bills to protect domestic workers, street vendors and young people in foster care.

Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposed 2024 budget cuts funding for an array of safety net programs. Here’s why some think the programs need money.

A local service provider is launching an emergency cash assistance pilot program, designed to assist survivors of domestic violence.

D.C.’s domestic workers have spent four years fighting for a bill of rights. The council has just a few weeks left to pass it.

A bill before the D.C. Council would protect domestic workers from discrimination, exploitation, and abuse at work.

As Pride month ends, service providers for unhoused queer youth remind us of the work left to be done.

The Budget Support Act, passed by the D.C. Council on May 7, includes several accountability measures for this year’s investments in affordable housing and public safety.

Patricia Donaldson reflects on an experience she had with harassment.

Chris Cole writes a poem titled “Backwards revolving door.”

Michele Rochon describes her experience with cults.

Kym Parker shares a vulnerable story about healing.

Cortney R. Signor shares the third part of her journey with homelessness.

D.C. opened a renovated Franklin Park in September. An unhoused resident pushed out of a nearby encampment interrupted the ceremony & was quickly whisked away.

How painful is that for a Mother? To nurse her child and an abuser sells them, willingly, for sex slaves?

Last week, because of my contacts on the streets and with law enforcement, I was asked by a crisis response…

Artist/Vendor Tony West shares deeply personal events with readers that shaped Tony’s life.

A poem by Artist/Vendor Ron Dudley, a.k.a. “Pookanu”

Sandra Jackson from the House of Ruth on the importance of childcare for Black women.

Street Sense Media vendor Saul Aroha Nui Tea explains how puppeteering came to play the role of therapy in his life and breaks down his latest folk opera.

More than 100 women experiencing homelessness were cast out of the Harriet Tubman Women’s Shelter during a Sept. 22 deep clean of the building. While out on the lawn, some told stories of verbal abuse from staff and guards. They say the rules and conditions are pushing them to their breaking point.