Capital & Main: D.C.’s Homeless Receive More Mental Health Help, But Housing Remains Elusive
One survey found that 80 percent of one encampment’s residents reported having a diagnosed mental illness.
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Tireless advocate for homeless women and children to be honored by Georgetown University at MLK Day…
As a newborn fresh out of the hospital and the last of five children, Sandra Jackson lay in a bassinet in her family’s home on S Street in Northwest, her parents and siblings huddled around her. Jackson tears up as she recalls the story…
Washington Post: An 11-year-old uprooted from a gentrifying city: ‘Sometimes, moms can’t afford…
Her toys were crammed in boxes. Her clothes were stuffed in trash bags. The furniture in her house was wrapped in plastic. Kamiyah Johnson, 11, was ready to move.
Brian Carome in The Post: What we can learn from Alice Carter’s death
One hundred and seventeen homeless people died in the District in 2019. One of those people was Alice Ann Carter, a 35-year-old transgender woman.
Washington Times: D.C. government to remove tents, belongings of homeless to create…
The D.C. government next week will permanently remove the tents and belongings of people experiencing homelessness from the sidewalks along the underpass on K Street NE in the NoMa area to create a “pedestrian passageway.”
Petula Dvorak in The Post: Getting rid of the homeless won’t make homelessness go away
The man sleeping on a sidewalk mattress, next to his jar of urine and beneath a glimmering art installation of light created to brighten a city underpass, is not going away.
Broken systems created homelessness — and only multifaceted solutions can end it, advocates say
On Thursday evening, a candlelight procession downtown and then an overnight vigil in Freedom Plaza will pay tribute to 81 men and women who died in DC over the past year “of preventable and manageable diseases without the dignity of a…
DC is closer than ever to ending veteran homelessness
DC has not yet met its years-old goal of eliminating veteran homelessnesss, but new permanent housing, better data and improved identification of veterans all provide grounds for optimism that it may soon do so. The District has steadily…
‘Trying to reinstill some hope’: A Veterans Day volunteer effort gets care packages into the hands…
Army veteran David Kurtz stands in the parking lot of Shiloh Baptist Church on this brisk Monday morning.
Sporting an army green hat and camouflage jacket, the veteran stands in front of a crowd of about 50 volunteers and bows his head…
The first residents of the new 66-acre Walter Reed redevelopment will be 77 formerly homeless…
Chad Jackson, a vendor for Street Sense Media and a formerly homeless veteran, served as a welder in the military from 1993 to 2000. When he returned home after his service, Jackson instantly felt the need to escape.
He chose to live on…
Now a board-certified counselor, formerly homeless veteran knows firsthand the value of being heard
It can take just one wrong step, one incorrect diagnosis, to change someone’s life. Xavier Justice’s time in the U.S. Army was cut short when he fell headfirst while doing vertical push-ups at his workplace. The accident left him…
Can the mayor deliver on her call for equitable distribution of 12,000 new affordable housing units…
When the District government began planning the construction of a six-story homeless shelter on a publicly owned lot next to a police station in Cleveland Park, some neighbors had concerns. The density of the proposed building, they…
As an outreach specialist, she meets homeless people ‘where they are’
A middle-aged man in a T-shirt and rumpled khakis sits on a bench in the vestibule of the First Congregational United Church of Christ at 9th and G streets NW. Looking dejected and worried, he says that he recently blacked out at a men’s…
Marcia Bernbaum: DC will pilot two stand-alone public restrooms open 24/7. Here’s why the…
The high cost of a self-cleaning public restroom at a Virginia Metrorail station recently garnered headlines as an example of wasteful spending, but its removal earlier this year need not disrupt the District’s own plans to pilot two…
Amanda Misiko Andere and Nan Roman: The cure for homelessness is a home
In recent months, cities across the country have shared results of their annual homeless census, a one-day snapshot of residents experiencing homelessness that captures trends, guides strategic planning efforts and informs federal funding…
‘Under Patty’s guiding light, hundreds of people found healing’: Adams Morgan nonprofit says…
When Patty Wudel first arrived at Joseph’s House nearly 30 years ago, she relished the warmth and love she felt from the people who immediately welcomed her into their community.
As she prepares to leave her longtime post as…
Volunteer makeover creates new STEM lab to inspire ‘a love of learning’ at Anacostia’s Ketcham…
Ketcham Elementary School in Ward 8’s historic Anacostia neighborhood just turned a cluttered old library room into a bright new STEM lab, replete with new iPads, robots and 3D printers — all thanks to a partnership with two regional…
HUD Secretary Ben Carson on hand to congratulate seven housing voucher recipients in DC who just…
At a recent celebration, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson personally congratulated the most recent class of seven new homeowners for successfully completing the DC Housing Authority’s little-known Home…
Washington Post: Five years ago, she was a homeless high school valedictorian. Saturday, she got a…
“I want people to look at me and say, ‘She did it, I can do it.’
ABC News: Former homeless student turned future Georgetown University grad: ‘Your blessing is…
As she sat in the well-appointed "commuter lounge" of Georgetown University, Rashema Melson drank in her surroundings as she drank an ice cold bottle of mineralized, specialty water.