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

Federal judge blocks HUD's 2026 homelessness funding guidelines for failing to follow required public procedures.

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Content warning: This article includes descriptions of sexual assault. Kiara Meza, a pregnant 24-year-old mother of two, crawled around on the floor in pain. She had tried to convince the staff at her ...

The Community for Creative Non-Violence (CCNV), the District’s largest emergency homeless shelter since 1984, plans to build a new co-ed facility on its site that would combine short-term shelter ...

As of January 2024, the minimum wage in the United States is $7.25 an hour, and that hasn’t changed since 2009. A single person working 40 hours per week, 52 weeks per year, before taxes, earns ...