The 22-bed shelter for unaccompanied youth to await family reunification is one step away from opening in Ward 5.

The group is raising money with a GoFundMe campaign to continue some of its emergency shelter services for LGBTQ+ people experiencing homelessness.

There’s a lot at stake for D.C.-area businesses. “Wherever people choose to shop right now,” says an organizer of a holiday market, “is who’s going to survive the pandemic.”

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.

The Days Inn is the last remaining motel the District has been using as an emergency shelter.

If you see a person who needs shelter, call the shelter hotline: 202-399-7093.

A new rule bans any facility in D.C. from holding more than 15 children, effectively scuttling a proposed 200-bed shelter in Takoma.

The law would make it easier for the city to decline emergency housing services for people who don’t live in the District or have access to some kind of safe housing.

Behind only California and Washington state in terms of the absolute increase.

A woman found him “slumped over” and unresponsive in Columbia Heights and called the police for help.