In her proposed budget, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser proposed funding toward renovating emergency and temporary homeless shelters, while longer-term housing options received funding hits. The proposal ...

Domestic violence is the leading cause of homelessness in the District, but the mayor's proposed budget would cut funding for ...

The number of encampments and the number of people at each site have been dropping over the first half of 2026.

Elizabeth Bowes writes a piece about an Easter surprise.

March 10, 2016, was one of the happiest days of my life. I was not homeless anymore. After 19 years of shelters, park benches, and storefronts, I was blessed with housing. Ten years later, I am still ...

In a rare move, President Donald Trump federalized D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and deployed the National Guard to D.C. on Aug. 11 in response to perceived high crime rates in the city.

Three weeks into the federal government’s crackdown on visible homelessness and crime in D.C., an impromptu count of people experiencing homelessness found hundreds of people are still living outside ...

This article is part of Street Sense’s 2025 contribution to the D.C. Homeless Crisis Reporting Project in collaboration with other local newsrooms. The collective works will be published throughout ...

After two years of homelessness increasing in D.C., it decreased by 9% in 2024, according to the 25th annual Point-In-Time (PIT) Count. But housing advocates say the true scope of homelessness is ...

If you’re like most people, you don’t carry cash as often as you used to. After all, you can do anything from ordering dinner to catching a ride home with the push of a button. Now you can do the same ...

A move away from housing first solutions for homelessness. Further criminalization of sleeping outdoors. Cuts to housing programs. These are some of the changes advocates and people experiencing ...