The Men of Valor choir is operated through Central Union Mission is a source of community and a musical outlet for unhoused ...

Vendor Jeffery McNeil explains how closing the door on political opposition creates only a fiercer version to contend with.

Under 100 veterans in Washington, D.C. were experiencing chronic homelessness, last year, Street Sense analyzes what causes ...

The United Planning Organization a nonprofit that runs the shelter hotline is expanding into running a housing program.

DC Central Kitchen's culinary job training program bridges economic divides for people facing high barriers to employment.

The Bellevue Back to School Bash helped many housing insecure families in the District prepare for back to school.

The ban preventing people from sleeping outside Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library has yet to cause arrest but it has ...

Kimberley Shattuck is an artist and vendor with Street Sense Media.

Michele Helies is an artist and vendor with Street Sense Media.

Marquis Savant is an artist and vendor with Street Sense Media.

The unkept promise of D.C.’s Commission on Poverty The D.C. Commission on Poverty has been left reeling, with no budget and no vice chair, as some worry the city doesn’t care about the body. D.C. body ...

In reviewing this year’s Point-In-Time Count, the annual measurement of homelessness in D.C., one shift becomes immediately clear: more families are living in shelters, a 20% increase from last year.