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Budget season is in full swing, and, like in past years, the D.C. Council has a different vision for the city’s fiscal future ...

Repeated encampment closures at MLK Library displaced at least a dozen people and closed one of the last places to sleep ...

Summer 2025 [email protected] Jelina is a Chinese-American photographer and videographer from the Bay Area. She ...

Repeated encampment closures at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library displaced at least a dozen people in the last month and closed one of the last places people regularly sleep outside ...

As I look up, in the door comes walking Sheila White! To read the sad and cheerful refrain of this sonnet!

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 ...

Tenants’ current options to improve conditions. Coles’ building is one of many in the District with documented proof from tenants of poor living conditions and landlords violating the D.C. Tenant Bill ...

D.C. is closing more encampments this year — and some with just one day’s notice. For years, D.C. has banned camping on public land and parks, enforced to varying degrees by the Office of the Deputy ...

When Ronnie Harris first entered foster care at 12 years old, she was certain she would be adopted. But, in what felt like no time at all, foster care swallowed her teenage years. The system jerked ...

If you’ve looked for winter shelter in D.C. in the past, you might notice the options look different this year. For the first time in several years, D.C. plans to operate winter overflow shelters ...