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

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 ...

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

In Jennifer Muhammad’s eyes, everyone is royal, and everyone is family. Those she serves at her aptly named nonprofit organization, the New Royal Family, she proudly refers to as her “kings and queens ...

After unsuccessfully lobbying the D.C. Council to restore its funding, the D.C. Commission on Poverty has been left reeling, wondering how it will fulfill its legally mandated obligations without ...

One District body has a new answer to the perennial question of how the city should respond to homelessness. D.C.’s Interagency Council on Homelessness (ICH) adopted its third strategic plan to end ...

A series of overdose spikes across D.C. this summer, including a citywide surge over the Fourth of July weekend, has prompted harm reduction advocates to call for expanded drug checking, which they ...

The District has closed 98 encampments through the end of July, an increase from the same period in 2025, during which D.C. closed 50 encampments, according to data from D.C.’s Office of the Deputy ...