In just seven days, District authorities closed three encampments, displacing over 40 people, many without a plan of where to go next. 

D. C.’s Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services (DMHHS) cleared four encampments during the week of June 24.

D.C. officials closed an encampment near Judiciary Square on Jan. 31. At least two residents lived there before the closure.

Patty Smith shares her experience with Street Sense.

D.C. conducted its annual survey of residents experiencing homelessness, the Point-in-Time Count, on Jan. 25. While the numbers are crucial to measuring how effective the city’s plan to end homelessness is, advocates say the survey is likely an undercount.

D.C. voters will go to the polls on Nov. 8 to vote for the city’s mayor and council members.

D.C. conducts over 70 encampment engagements every year. Do they achieve what they’re supposed to?

Tiny, who lives in the encampment, sat on top of her bookshelf as DMHHS workers and service providers attempted to force her to move her belongings for the June 28 clean-up.

The National Park Service cleared the 35-resident Union Station encampment on June 1, throwing away belongings and involuntarily committing one resident.

Serve Your City-Ward 6 Mutual Aid, a D.C.-based nonprofit, is raising money to send children in Ward 6 to summer…

Abel Putu writes about his goals for the New Year.

Juliene Kengnie expresses her thanks to her customers at Eastern Market through a letter.

High schoolers at Gonzaga College High School learned about the city’s CARE program. Here are their thoughts about the approach.

A public restroom pilot program plans to address the longstanding problem of access to public restrooms. An anticipated report by the work group consisting of nine government agencies is planned to release a report sometime this month.

A District-owned parking lot in NoMa may be turned into apartments with half of the units reserved for families below D.C.’s median income.

The National Park Service closed a second triangle park near Union Station on Oct. 15. Ten people who had been living in the park at Massachusetts Avenue and 3rd Street NE had only 14 days to find a new place to live.

An encampment eviction was suspended for less than a day after a District worker used a small front loader to push over a tent with an individual still inside. District officials maintain the worker didn’t know someone was inside, but it raises the question: How could this happen in the first place?

D.C. officials are moving some residents into housing from three large encampments, but others may be kicked out. Where will they go?

Like K Street in January 2020, the underpasses at L Street and M Street NE will be designated as “pedestrian passageways.” Unlike the K Street eviction, D.C. government says it will expedite housing as part of removing people and their belongings.

Ward 6 residents are advocating for soon-to-be available land to become a new community-controlled, permanently affordable housing and retail space in the Navy Yard neighborhood.