D.C. closed nine encampments, did “full-clean ups” at six others, and postponed two scheduled closures due to bad weather between Aug. 27 and Oct. 8.

Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyan McDuffier answered questions from the community.

Michael W. Palmer, a former military police officer and department of corrections employee in the state of Virginia, never thought…

Small Northeast D.C. neighborhood Ivy City is going through a major transformation – new shops, restaurants, bars and apartment buildings are popping on practically every corner.

On Sept. 22 at a community meeting at Bethesda Baptist Church in Northeast, two land developers and the non-profit agency Empower DC presented proposals to D.C.’s Deputy Mayor for Economic Development about how to develop the historic and currently vacant Crummell School.

Residents fearing displacement are joining Community Land Trusts to maintain control over the price of their homes.

Community members in Ivy City get involved with proposals about what to do with specific neighborhood spaces like Crummell School.

My name is Tyrone Hall and I have lived at the New York Avenue Shelter for a long time. Life…

Empower DC, Friends of Crummell School and Ward 5 residents rallied across the street from Alexander Crummell School on September…

Two blocks off of New York Avenue NE, boarded up and covered in vines, sits a century-old pride of Ivy…

When you type “Ivy City DC” into Apple Maps, you’re sent to a parking lot adjacent to Alexander Crummell School….

A fiscal year 2015 budget that won preliminary approval May 28 from the DC City Council funds initiatives to address…

At a May 16 hearing, D.C. Superior Court Judge Herbert B. Dixon lifted an injunction that, since 2012, has prohibited…

As a D.C. Superior Court judge weighs a city-backed plan to open a charter bus depot in Ivy City, neighborhood…

In 2011, Peta-Gay Lewis could not wait to become a homeowner in Ward 5’s Ivy City. She was one of…

At the District of Columbia Court of Appeals Sept. 17, a three-judge panel considered whether to let stand an injunction…

Three children race through the intersection of Providence and Capitol streets NE. Two kids ride scooters and one is on…

An obituary of Andre Blair, a homeless man who died from hypothermia.