D.C. Department of Human Services and Department of Motor Vehicles have doubled access points for free IDs for the homeless.

Over the course of the next four months, seeing him twice a week, along with daily attendance of 12-steppers gatherings, connections with others, and working, time just slipped by.

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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.

Last summer, a D.C. resident was looking for apartments to rent with his newly- received housing voucher. The man, who Street Sense is not identifying to protect his family’s privacy and the outreach ...

Since Mayor Muriel Bowser proposed her fiscal year 2027 budget in April, lawmakers and homelessness advocates have scrambled to avoid her proposed cut of hundreds of housing vouchers. In its first ...

This series outlines all the major events, people and places that affected the state of homelessness and poverty in Washington from 1975 to today. Street Sense has no online paywall to keep our ...

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 was reported with support from SpotlightDC: Capital City Fund for Investigative Journalism. On the afternoon of Aug. 14, 2025, D.C. police walked the streets surrounding the White House ...

Nestled between residential homes in D.C.’s Ward 8 lies a sanctuary for homeless LGBTQ+ youth. The Wanda Alston Foundation — founded in 2008 to honor queer rights activist Wanda Alston, who was the ...