Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) vouchers provide long-term rent support and case management. D.C.’s voucher system is under strain.

Street Sense vendors share what they learned at the D.C. Council candidates forum held by the People for Fairness Coalition.

D.C. and the National Park Service closed encampments across Foggy Bottom in mid-May, displacing at least 50 people.

A new bill would make school lunch free for everyone in D.C. But it’s not funded in proposals for the coming year’s budget.

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.

Last month, the D.C. Department of Health gave several street vendors cease-and-desist orders, despite recent reforms.

Two months after bargaining began between Unity Health Care and its unionized providers, the union has filed an unfair labor charge.

D.C.’s Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services closed an encampment at the corner of 9th and Mt. Olivet St. NE on May 7.

Unity Health Care patient Aida Peery hopes recent unionization efforts will improve services for patients.

DC Doors, a youth drop-in center in DC, is implementing new security measures after a shooting at the facility in December.

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.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s 2025 proposed budget cuts funding for eviction prevention and homeless services and has no new housing vouchers.

Vending machines around the city will provide Naloxone, fentanyl test strips, and other harm reduction supplies.

Street Sense’s biweekly column on encampment closures returns to detail four closures and clearings in mid-April.

A new story by Invisible Prophet.

Hostile architecture makes public space less accessible for people experiencing homelessness, a high school student writes.

Residents say a new proposal to build a nine-story lodging in Chinatown threatens to decimate an already dwindling community.

Unity Health Care workers are advocating for better conditions, more time with patients, and lower workloads.

Over 7% of all infants and toddlers in D.C. experience homelessness, according to a recent report. That is more than any state in the U.S.

D.C. removed an encampment near the Anacostia river on March 27. No residents were present during the closure.