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. police temporarily detained a pregnant Black woman during an encampment closure on April 17, holding her in a police van for an hour.

The D.C. Housing Authority board approved a draft version of the agency’s new procurement and contracting policy, after the agency came under fire from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The Community Enrichment Project (CEP) is a youth civic engagement and empowerment nonprofit with a mission to enhance underserved communities by empowering young leaders. This article explores the work founder Lauren Grimes is doing with local youth.

Residents of southeast D.C. were used to traveling up to 50 minutes each way to receive health care in different parts of the city. Now, a new provider is open in Ward 8 to combat accessibility issues.

Each morning before heading to a public charter school in southeast Washington, one teacher must decide if she’s going to…

ANC 7F voted to remove a bus shelter along Minnesota Avenue NE because of misuse.

After working with the nonprofit D.C. Greens for seven years, the D.C. Department of Health is contracting with a new…

The Michelle Obama Southeast Center of Bread for the City, a federally funded community health center, opened recently at 1700 Good Hope Road SE to provide greater access to low-barrier healthcare services for residents in Wards 7 and 8.

Southeast DC’s only hospital is trying to dig itself out of a financial pit, but a lack of patients has complicated the effort.

Mallory Mpare is seeking to make a difference for pregnant people of color in the District through a mobile health clinic that brings comprehensive care to parents and babies in wards 7 and 8. 

Caston won an unprecedented election on Tuesday, June 15 for a seat on a Ward 7 Advisory Neighborhood Commission, besting four other candidates who are also incarcerated in the jail.

The D.C. Tenants Union partnered with tenant leaders at Marbury Plaza in Southeast D.C. to organize a rent strike and push the landlord and city government for repairs and rental relief.

The District Task Force on Jails and Justice made 80 recommendations to the Mayor to invest in more affordable housing, to help communities and prevent crime.

An officer driving to assist a fellow officer the night of July 24 hit a homeless woman who was crossing the street. She died soon after.

A D.C. landlord was arrested for contempt of court amidst litigation over allegations that he neglected to keep his properties up to code.

Passionate and upset D.C. residents packed shoulder-to-shoulder into room 412 of the Wilson Building for a six-hour hearing on the future of the only hospital east of the Anacostia River.

Only one hospital is currently located east of the Anacostia River, while six of D.C.’s seven acute care hospitals are located in Northwest — even though wards 2 and 3 have close to the same number of residents as wards 7 and 8. As a result, primary-care clinics are filling the gap.  

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