Homelessness

Last month I wrote about the controversy over how contracts were awarded to provide food services to D.C. homeless shelters — including accusations that the District might have been defrauded. Since then, I’ve received new information and…

The number of people experiencing homelessness in D.C. is down 5.5 percent from last year, according to the city’s annual census of its homeless population.

The number of homeless people counted on the streets and in the shelters of the nation’s capital has dropped for the third straight year, D.C. officials announced Wednesday.

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.

I was disappointed by the April 17 front-page article “Housing vouchers roil a pricey D.C. building.” The article’s characterization of an increase in tenants with housing vouchers at a Northwest D.C. apartment building as a “high-stakes…

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.

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…

According to data from the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, the D.C. government “engaged” homeless encampments 100 times in 2018. “Engagement” in this case refers to encampment “cleanups” carried out under the…

My name is Monica Diaz. I was recently featured in a front-page Washington Post story, along with my husband Pete and our dog Sassy. I was homeless for two years, and it was the worst experience of my life: sleepless and cold nights, so…

Every two weeks, dump trucks and police cars roll under the K, L, and M Street bridges near Union Station. Tuesday, April 9 was no different.

Washing up in a shower with someone’s feces at your feet seems counterproductive.

Ward 3 Democratic D.C. Council member Mary M. Cheh is known for her keen interest in identifying fraudulent activity in city government. Cheh has now raised the possibility that the District government has been “defrauded” in the awarding…

Throughout my time as a cook, an entrepreneur and a nonprofit founder, I have been reminded time and again, from the District to Puerto Rico, of the incredible power of food to bring people together.

Ward 3, home to American University, seems to be thriving. But in the midst of many middle- to high-income earners, there are people dealing with homelessness. Last month, the University of the District of Columbia hosted a panel to talk…

How a Washington Post article and a public outpouring of support changed one homeless couple’s lives forever.

A D.C. Council member wants an investigation into who is feeding the city’s homeless after she learned a small business is charging the city double that of its competitor for meals served in a shelter.

A D.C. Council member has requested an investigation after a catering company won a city contract to feed the homeless despite a lower bid by a competitor.