If a student is denied enrollment or resources by an individual school, they can appeal to the school system and state. But not all parents are aware of these rights.

School districts with the highest portion of students experiencing homelessness often don’t receive part of a grant set aside to help them.

For families experiencing homelessness, the pandemic has presented unique challenges to offering socialization and playtime for their children — especially as shelters and housing programs have imposed restrictions.

Monica Diaz and Pete Etheridge were the subjects of a Washington Post profile. Now, they’re moving into a home for the first time in two years.

Some residents are gearing up to express their opposition to replace D.C. General with family shelters located throughout the city.

The goal is to close the dilapidated shelter by the winter of 2018.

A 16 percent increase.

Helping Families Home lays out a plan through next spring that will create a “system that serves families appropriately with the goal of quickly connecting families with the right services, including emergency shelter if needed, when they need it, regardless of the time of year.”

Mayor Vincent Gray will ask the D.C. Council to alter the city’s right-to-shelter law, saying he wants to provide resources to people seeking shelter to “reconnect them with where they’ve been.”