After two years of providing shower access and more, The Neighborhood Well looks to expand to D.C.

Lack of affordable housing means many folks have no choice but to be exposed to dangerous pollution.

D.C. officials moved the planned encampment clearing up by two months, citing health and safety concerns, but critics said the rushed closure would leave some residents with few options of where to go.

It’s unclear whether the city will continue to house each individual in a hotel room until they land in a permanent home.

The hotel has effectively become a family shelter for asylum seekers bused from red states. But families allegedly are not provided the same essential services typical of traditional family shelters and live under strict rules.

More funding is on the way for a local rent relief program established in response to the pandemic. The Latino Economic Development Center can help people access resources in D.C. and Maryland.

Homeless advocates say D.C.’s push to house people living in encampments should continue, but the city should stop clearing encampments and banning people from returning.

The encampment at 3rd Street and Massachusetts Avenue NE was located on a small plot of federal land, leaving the responsibility of clearing it to the National Park Service — not D.C.

Faced with criticism, D.C. officials say the program is working as intended, and that 34 of the 45 residents of two NoMa encampments were either placed in housing or about to be.

Two longstanding homeless encampments in NoMa will be shut down by D.C. on Oct. 4, though city officials are working to get as many residents as possible housed first.