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Street Sense was honored to receive five awards from the D.C. chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Budget season is in full swing, and, like in past years, the D.C. Council has a different vision for the city’s fiscal future ...

Repeated encampment closures at MLK Library displaced at least a dozen people and closed one of the last places to sleep ...

Summer 2025 jelina.liu@streetsensemedia.org Jelina is a Chinese-American photographer and videographer from the Bay Area. She ...

As I look up, in the door comes walking Sheila White! To read the sad and cheerful refrain of this sonnet!

After years of having to pay for transportation to cross the Anacostia River to receive health care, residents of Wards 7 and 8, largely disconnected by the Anacostia River from D.C.’s high-quality ...

If you’re like most people, you don’t carry cash as often as you used to. After all, you can do anything from ordering dinner to catching a ride home with the push of a button. Now you can do the same ...

The lack of affordable housing is a national crisis for everyone: college students, the working poor, lower- and middle-class individuals experiencing unexpected catastrophes, and people on fixed ...

A new program is providing no-strings-attached monthly cash assistance to Black mothers with children involved in the child welfare system. Mothers living with their children and who have a current or ...

When Ronnie Harris first entered foster care at 12 years old, she was certain she would be adopted. But, in what felt like no time at all, foster care swallowed her teenage years. The system jerked ...

Thanks to the passage of the infrastructure bill and the American Rescue Plan, the District is set to receive millions in federal funding with the goal of completely removing lead pipes from its ...