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On a recent Wednesday night at the Quality Inn on New York Avenue in Northeast—which the city uses as an overflow homeless shelter—parents and children poured into the motel’s community room for a…

On a recent Wednesday, Renee Hines sat at a table in D.C.’s Northwest One Library near Mount Vernon Triangle, ready to greet people experiencing homelessness who had lined up to see her.

Limited resources put providers in competition with one another.

“We have one gentleman who’s 67 years old who gets disability. Maybe $800 a month. Where’s he going to live? That’s what we’re up against.”

The NoMa BID wants homeless encampments gone so that area pedestrians feel more comfortable.

The few black businesses owners whose shops still inhabit Shaw and U Street NW storefronts have had a front-row seat to gentrification.

The underpasses at K, L, and M Streets in the NoMa area of Northeast D.C. give off an unpleasant odor. Put bluntly, they reek of urine. And the rotting piles of garbage strewn up and down their…

It was the first day of construction. A new short-term family housing project was going up in Ward 1.

The Greek company Intralot, which last month received a $215 million contract to bring sports gambling to the nation’s capital and to continue running its lottery, says more than half the work will…

Muhammad Al-Qaabil has been driving a cab in D.C. for 46 years, so he knows something about picking up passengers — like, when you pick someone up, it’s best to go where they actually are.

An organization that promotes development in a fast-gentrifying District neighborhood is defending a letter critical of homeless encampments that some advocates called insensitive.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Wednesday expressed confidence in the city agency that failed to act on reports of “life safety violations” at a rowhouse months before a fire tore through the…

Would you get out of your car and take public transit for money?

An eight-year conflict has engulfed a narrow slice of Woodley Park, pitting residents against bicyclists in the Northwest neighborhood — and their struggle reflects similar tensions in other parts of…

D.C.’s hotels saw lower occupancy and average room rates in 2018 than the previous year, and hotel performance in the city and the region for 2019 so far isn’t looking much more promising, according…

When D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Lewis Ferebee appeared on the Kojo Nnamdi Show last week, a teacher from Stanton Elementary School in Ward 8 called in to ask about the whereabouts of a $200 gift…

The Klingle Valley Trail shuts down September 3

“Juana loves many things: drawing, eating Brussels sprouts, and living in Bogotá, Colombia. Most of all she loves her dog, Lucas, the best amigo ever.”

A new, nine-story multifamily development just got started in Brookland, but some residents of the Northeast D.C. neighborhood are already voicing opposition.

A police officer flagged illegal conditions in a Brightwood rental about five months before a fire killed two occupants, city officials confirm to DCist. The officer informed the Department of…