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

A community organization in Maryland, The Neighborhood Well, offers free showers and community to unhoused neighbors.

A new piece by Michele Rochon.

D.C. councilmembers are set to reintroduce a bill that would make the District a leader in social housing.

After his own experience with homelessness, Abdoulaye Sylla is giving back to the homeless community one recipe at a time.

In 1982, Stepping Stones Shelter made history as the first homeless shelter for families in Montgomery County, MD. Today, it’s best known for its location in Rockville’s historic Dawson Farmhouse and for providing about 30 families with housing and services each year.

Street Sense Media spoke with the executive director at the Silver Spring organization Shepherd’s Table about it’s services, the people it serves and how it was affected by the pandemic.

Artist/Vendor Phillip Black shares advice for riding the metro.

A writer remembers an incident with an old friend

Artist/Vendor Levester Green shares stories from his past.

The 2022 Point in Time (PIT) count results from 9 participating jurisdictions across the District of Columbia, suburban Maryland, and Northern Virginia were revealed at this month’s Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments meeting on May 11. A decrease across all subgroups of the region’s homeless population was reported.

Vendor Levester Green shares about music and housing issues.

If Trump knows the difference between right and wrong and chooses to break the law anyway, then he obviously belongs in prison. However, if his sense of right and wrong is a brain condition due to no fault of his own, then the American people still need to be protected from his actions nonetheless.

Cortney R. Signor chronicles her journey from Michigan to the DMV area.

Wendell Williams on innovative ways people with lived experience are working in homeless services in Maryland.

12+ local media outlets in Washington, DC, collaborate to cover homelessness.

A local realtor association and a nonprofit recently cemented a three-year partnership to support low-income residents in the D.C. metro region seeking to own their own homes.

Refugees coming into the Washington region will contend with more than just acclimating themselves to a new culture and environment. They will need to learn how to overcome barriers to employment and reckon with the soaring cost of housing. Refugees, nonprofits, and others hope the public will stay focused on welcoming newcomers into the region. // خلاصه: پناهجویان که به منطقه واشنگتن می آیند نه تنها خود را با فرهنگ و محیط جدید عادت میدهند. آنها می آموزند که چگونه بر موانع اشتغال زایی را فائق آیند و هزینه های مسکن را در نظر بگیرند. پناهجویان، سازمان های غیرانتفاعی و دیگران امیدوارند عموم مردم روی استقبال از تازه واردان در منطقه تمرکز کنند

The Playtime Program, a D.C.-based nonprofit, is expanding its partnership with shelters to bring programming for children experiencing homelessness to families in Maryland.

Professor Carolyn Gallaher writes on what the end of COVID-19 eviction bans means and how other programs could fill the gap for those in need of assistance.