Around 600 families will be participating in the new Career MAP pilot program.

After falling short of its initial goal to see a 65% decrease in homelessness by 2020, the Bowser administration now has to play catch-up.

“Our goal is really to promote access to housing that exists in our community for people who have subsidies and are working hard to exit homelessness, but are just being turned away from unit after unit.”

In the fact of looming federal cuts, a parallel family homelessness crisis, and an increasingly high cost of living, advocates are surprisingly optimistic.