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DC officials explore future of CARE pilot after McPherson encampment closure

Annemarie Cuccia Mar 7, 2023 417
As the National Park Service moves to close all local encampments on its land, the DC government is considering relaunching a controversial pilot program that aims to connect encampment residents with housing vouchers. At least in…
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District governmentHomelessness

‘There’s just nothing else’: Why only one-third of displaced McPherson residents are in housing or shelters after encampment closure

Annemarie Cuccia Feb 28, 2023 425
It wasn’t the first time Moon has packed his life into his cobalt-blue backpack. Now middle-aged, he has left countless temporary homes since becoming homeless at 15. But this time, he was planning his next move in a city with a dwindling…
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New Housing Committee chair Robert White on vouchers, shelters and DCHA

Annemarie Cuccia Feb 23, 2023 1,035
The DC Council’s reconstituted Housing Committee expects to have a busy year as legislators grapple with voucher backlogs, poor shelter conditions and a still-under-fire housing authority. Street Sense and The DC Line caught up with…
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After scathing HUD report, DCHA approves draft procurement policy

Annemarie Cuccia Feb 17, 2023 597
DC's beleaguered housing agency is taking steps toward overhauling its contracting policy, following a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) review published last fall that revealed many “systemic problems” with the…
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District governmentHomelessness

DC on path to fill homeless shelters in 2023, advocates warn

Annemarie Cuccia Feb 10, 2023 1,129
Close observers of DC’s homeless services are predicting the city’s shelters may be full by midyear as a potential rise in demand for beds coincides with the shuttering of some shelter programs.  Next week, the National Park Service…
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District governmentHomelessness

What DC hopes to learn from its annual survey of homeless residents

Annemarie Cuccia Feb 2, 2023 503
A year ago, Dr. Mayaalla MuQaddim Abdullah Al Saud was nearly asleep when neon-vested volunteers approached her tent while conducting an annual census of people experiencing homelessness. They asked how long she’d been sleeping outside,…
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District government

DCHA enters 2023 with a new board and old calls for reform

Annemarie Cuccia Jan 13, 2023 981
DC’s public housing agency is set to have a busy 2023.  Responding to criticism in a stinging U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) assessment made public in October, the DC Council installed a temporary DC Housing…
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District governmentHomelessness

While mourning people who died unhoused in 2022, advocates call for change

Annemarie Cuccia Jan 10, 2023 358
For the 10th year in a row, dozens of people gathered on the longest night of the year to remember District residents who died without a home, often without fanfare or memorial services. This year’s Homeless Memorial Vigil, held…
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HomelessnessNews

National Park Service closes Scott Circle encampment during hypothermia alert

Annemarie Cuccia Dec 22, 2022 414
It was just 30 degrees outside when Jamaar Andre Taylor unzipped the outer flap of his tent to find a dozen people telling him he had to leave. On the morning of Dec. 14, the National Park Service (NPS) closed the Scott Circle…
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District governmentHomelessness

DC Council set to fill gaps in pre-pandemic rental, nutrition assistance

Annemarie Cuccia Dec 16, 2022 340
After temporarily boosting housing and nutrition benefits in the first year of the pandemic, the DC Council is poised to make their expansion permanent. Legislators unanimously approved the measures during a first reading at their Dec. 6…
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DCHA is promising operational reform. What does that mean for residents?

Annemarie Cuccia Dec 7, 2022 761
Two months after the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued a stinging assessment of the DC Housing Authority (DCHA), the public outcry as well as the potential penalties are already leading to change — though some…
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DC Council poised to pass domestic workers bill of rights

Annemarie Cuccia Dec 2, 2022 588
As Yeny finished a recent 16-hour workday, she discovered she’d lost money. Yeny, who’s being referred to by just her first name to prevent retaliation, works construction and child care jobs as a domestic worker in DC. That day,…
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District governmentHomelessness

Why didn’t DC use all of its housing vouchers in FY 2022?

Annemarie Cuccia Nov 3, 2022 1,025
DC’s plan to eliminate homelessness for single adults appears to be faltering. Prior to the start of fiscal year 2022, the District did something unprecedented. In a bid to end homelessness for single adults, the DC government funded a…
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District governmentHomelessness

Thousands of people in DC use housing vouchers. How much should they be worth?

Annemarie Cuccia Oct 20, 2022 10,354
People using housing vouchers in DC spent this past summer in limbo. In the spring, the DC Housing Authority (DCHA) deliberated changing the maximum value of all 20,000 vouchers the agency administers. If implemented, the change could have…
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District governmentHomelessness

DC encampment residents say engagements don’t meet city’s stated goals

Annemarie Cuccia Sep 22, 2022 635
Sitting outside the bright red doors of the Church of the Epiphany, Colleen peered at her tent on the sidewalk. Soon, city workers would order her to remove it in preparation for the day’s encampment engagement. Colleen’s friends were…
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The true picture of climate change includes methane’s effects — locally, regionally and globally

Youthcast Media Group Sep 13, 2022 823
By Jalynn Charity, Joy Li and Zioni Moore It’s in your gas stove. It leaks from service lines leading into houses and apartment buildings. It crisscrosses large regions of the United States through underground pipelines. It has the…
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‘We’re trying to make it a level playing field’: How a new hotline helped stop two-thirds of evictions in DC

Annemarie Cuccia Aug 22, 2022 1,481
If you’re facing eviction in DC, there’s just one number you need to call for help: 202-780-2575. It’s an eviction prevention hotline and the attorneys who staff it stopped 70% of evictions sought by landlords from September 2021 to March…
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HomelessnessNews

Despite DC’s heat plan, it’s not easy for unhoused people to cool off

Annemarie Cuccia Aug 1, 2022 463
The tent Chris Cole lived in was a sauna. It wasn’t even 7 a.m. and she could already feel the sun. Her thin roof offered little protection as the temperature outside climbed to 95 degrees. She could hardly breathe. She had to get indoors.…
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District governmentHomelessness

Why has DC used only one-fifth of this year’s new housing vouchers so far?

Annemarie Cuccia Jul 22, 2022 1,415
Doug had a housing voucher, but he was still sleeping outside.  Three days after the Jan. 6 insurrection, he boarded a train to DC on the promise of a job. When he arrived, he learned his start date was delayed. The place he had…
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District governmentNews

DC domestic workers push for long-sought protections as new legislative hurdles emerge

Annemarie Cuccia Jul 13, 2022 573
For the past two years, Reina has had three jobs.  “Teacher, mother, provider,” she said. “It was very difficult.”  Reina, who asked to be referred to by her first name out of concern for retaliation, is a domestic worker in DC. When…
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District Links: Environmental groups battle Bowser budget proposals; funding bill with DC budget riders clears House…

Apr 17, 2026 11
The House Appropriations Committee is slated to act Tuesday or Wednesday on the fiscal year 2027 funding bill that includes DC appropriations — as well as a slate of DC-related budget riders.

District Links: Bowser extends juvenile curfew; monumental arch gains nod; House appropriations panel looks to include…

Apr 16, 2026 18
The Republican-run House Appropriations Committee this morning released the text of a proposed fiscal year 2027 funding bill that includes appropriations for DC — with the broad array of riders…

District Links: Mayor says she expects to invoke 15-day emergency to extend curfew zones; Pinto apologizes for posting…

Apr 15, 2026 12
With current legislative authority for expanded juvenile curfews set to expire at midnight, Mayor Muriel Bowser said today that she's likely to declare a 15-day public emergency in order to…

District Links: White calls for Pinto to withdraw from delegate’s race over release of personal info; BZA lacks…

Apr 14, 2026 18
Robert White — one of two sitting councilmembers vying to become the DC's next delegate to Congress — is calling on his Ward 2 colleague Brooke Pinto to drop out of the race after her campaign posted…
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