Homelessness

As temperatures in D.C. drop to dangerously cold levels for the unhoused, the District plans to unveil another homeless shelter for families on Tuesday—one of several replacements for D.C. General, the decaying megashelter that Mayor Muriel…

VERY LITTLE fanfare accompanied the shuttering of the District’s notorious shelter for homeless families at the old D.C. General hospital. There were brief remarks, and the entrance was chained shut. “We’re moving on,” said Mayor Muriel E.…

WASHINGTON (Circa) — Grace Maria says she was headed back into her office in Washington, D.C. when she noticed a homeless man involved in a confrontation with police.

In late August, fall classes at Trinity Washington University had just begun, but Bre* was already thinking ahead to winter break. When the semester ends and the dorms close, she will be homeless again. The possibility that she would have…

Without much ado, Mayor Muriel Bowser on Tuesday officially shuttered D.C. General, the former hospital that had served as a homeless shelter since 2001 and had housed more than 260 families a night at peak levels in recent years, making it…

The link between domestic violence and homelessness among women has long been established. In the nation’s capital, more than half of homeless women interviewed in a recent study said they had experienced domestic violence.

Fulfilling a promise she made when she first ran for mayor four years ago, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Tuesday declared the D.C. General family homeless shelter closed. “The last family has moved out of the facility,” she said. “It’s no…

Formerly homeless and a fierce advocate for those who suffer the same, she's running for a Ward 7 ANC seat.

Homeless advocates told a D.C. Council hearing Tuesday that city’s winter shelter plan has “gaping holes” in it. Advocates and homeless people testified that the plan lacks low-barrier shelters for families, coed shelters for couples and…

As winter approaches, it becomes more dangerous for people experiencing homelessness to remain unsheltered. In preparation, the D.C. Interagency Council on Homelessness compiles a winter plan for each fiscal year, covering shelter capacity,…

Thirty-four families are still living at D.C. General, the large, dilapidated former hospital-turned-homeless shelter that Mayor Muriel Bowser is working to close by the end of the year. The city announced to residents this summer that it…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Tuesday opened the second homeless shelter to replace the dilapidated facility at the former D.C. General Hospital campus — part of her campaign promise to close D.C. General by the end of the year and to make…

On Tuesday, D.C. officials will ceremonially début a new family homeless shelter at 5004 D St. SE in Marshall Heights as part of the plan to close and replace the derelict D.C. General shelter. The soon-to-open facility will house 35…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Wednesday cut the ribbon on the first of six family homeless shelters being built to replace D.C. General. The long-troubled shelter will be closed this fall as part of Bowser’s efforts to reform the city’s…

Jamal Speaks put on his pads, grabbed his helmet and got dressed in his new gray Ballou High School jersey on Saturday, readying himself for his first game in nearly two years. But just as the 18-year old student, who says he is homeless,…