Homelessness increased in Washington, D.C. by 14% during 2023. This is the second consecutive year homelessness has risen in the District.

While D.C. has some policies and programs that have made the city a leader in combating youth homelessness, it has failed to deliver on promises of ending youth homelessness entirely by 2022.

Skyler Kelley opened Brij Coffee with one goal in mind — to use profits to help folks without stable housing.

HUD announced on June 8 that it will launch a new campaign to support LGBTQ+ identifying youth experiencing homelessness.

Long-time vendor Sybil Taylor shares how she began creating art for the paper this year.

Three D.C. Health locations will now provide 300 monkeypox vaccines for District residents each Friday.

D.C.’s first shelter for LGBTQ adults — set to provide trauma-specific resources, case management and substance use disorder services to residents — will open this month.

Artist/Vendor Sybil Taylor shares about the Pride celebrations.

Three of our LGBTQ vendors and artists tell us about their experiences as LGBTQ people, and what Pride means to them.

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

About 40 people gathered in downtown D.C. on May 19 to take part in an overnight event to raise awareness of the growing plight of young people experiencing homelessness.

Workforce development programs in D.C. aren’t helping youth experiencing homelessness, causing many youth to turn away from the programs.

SMYAL (Supporting and Mentoring Youth Advocates and Leaders) recently opened its third facility to help meet the transitional housing needs of local LGTBQ youth.

Phoenix Oaks, a vendor with Street Roots in Portland, Oregon, offers guidance on how to properly interact with transgender community members to better ensure everyone has basic respect.

Transgender people in the United States face barriers in many aspects of their lives, from job discrimination to family rejection. While LGBTQ-focused youth programs and housing assistance is growing nationally and in the District, transgender adults are being left behind after aging out of the system in their mid-twenties.

SMYAL, known as Supporting and Mentoring Youth Advocates and Leaders, is launching a third Extended Transitional Housing program this spring for LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness that will provide residents with up to six years of mental health support, shelter and employment assistance.

In this series, Taylor reflects on paying for sex as a self-described “semi-closeted gay male.”

Shelter residents are sent to DHS’s isolation sites when exposed to COVID-19. But some report mistreatment and transphobia by staff and security guards.

Artist and vendor Jeff Taylor critiques the case study written by Street Sense Media about the life and death of Alice Carter, who he knew and lived with.

Local nonprofits say the cuts will make it harder for them to serve homeless youth amid the coronavirus pandemic.