Advocacy groups and justice organizations have raised concerns about the disruption of community services resulting from drug ...

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The Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services has done more encampment closures this year than it did in all ...

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The Aston, a homeless shelter at 1129 New Hampshire Ave., is now expected to open between mid-September and early ...

Author Richard Kahlenberg, director of housing policy at the Progressive Policy Institute, tackles the twin minefields of ...

To my surprise, the people were so, so, so nice to me. I was surprised they were so nice and I felt bad I judged them because ...

As stated in Lesson 1, the Declaration of Independence is the worst name for this government charter for these ...

D.C.’s Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA) isn’t just for tenants and tenant associations. The law, which gives current ...

The children in foster care. Those who are homeless. They and many, many others have no family. Sometimes they ...

One of D.C.’s largest public libraries has begun enforcing rules against sleeping and lying down on library property, a ...