NBC4: Crackdown on Homeless Camps Raising Concerns in DC
Washington, D.C., health workers have cleared away more than 220 homeless encampments in the past two years, according to an investigation by the News4 I-Team.
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Street Sense: Notification service HopeOneSource expanded greatly after start as an Interagency…
HopeOneSource, a text message-based notification service targeted at homeless residents in D.C., has grown immensely since it started as a pilot program in September 2015 through D.C.’s Interagency Council on Homelessness.
Street Sense: In progress report, ICH looks at successes and shortcomings of plan to end…
At the quarterly Interagency Council on Homelessness (ICH) meeting on April 9, members met to discuss and make last-minute suggestions for the draft of the Homeward D.C. progress report, which must be submitted to and approved by Mayor…
Street Sense: More than 40 people signed up to testify on homelessness during a DC Council oversight…
As the D.C. Council prepares to review the mayor’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2020, a performance oversight hearing was held on March 1 to review the effectiveness of funds invested in the Interagency Council on Homelessness and the…
Washington Post: With frigid weather, concern heightens for the city’s homeless
On the eve of winter’s coldest punch of the season so far, with temperatures due to plunge to low single digits, two of the thousands of homeless people in the nation’s capital, James Bernard and June Lewis, sat huddled in the shallow…