HUD has shifted its criteria on funding applications for the Continuum of Care (CoC) program away from the Housing First ...

Vendor Levester Green details how a D.C. dispensary took his advice on the price of its product and it got a leg up on the competition.

D.C. At-large Councilmember Robert White is proposing a new bill aimed at addressing the shortage of social workers in the ...

FreshFarm is helping families fight food insecurity through a dollar-for-dollar match with food assistance programs like SNAP ...

A new bill would fund the city's 988 suicide and crisis lifeline with a tax on telecommunications similar to the District 911 ...

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Despite the government shutdown ending, food banks and distribution centers in D.C. say there's been a spike in need this ...

Street Sense vendor Frederic John recalls his time working on the campaign of Bill Clinton and eventually working in the ...

There was a fear D.C. would see a spike in involuntary hospitalizations at area hospitals during the federal takeover, but it ...

Reggie Black is an artist and vendor with Street Sense Media. In 2015, the #HumansWithoutHomes series explored the experience of those who are or have previously been homeless through poetry and ...

Rapid rehousing is one of D.C.’s most controversial homeless services programs. This election season, at-large candidates Marcus Goodwin, Will Merrifield, and Mónica Palacio have included reform of ...

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