Category: In the News

Crucially, advocates point out, there are not enough shelter beds in the nation’s capital to accommodate all of the people who regularly sleep outside. According to a joint press release from the National Homelessness Law Center, the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, and Miriam’s Kitchen, there are currently just 40 shelter beds available and nearly 900 people who may need them. Read more…

“We believe at 6:30 p.m. federal law enforcement will begin systematically rounding up and arresting unhoused people on the street in D.C.,” Amber W. Harding, the executive director of the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, told Truthout in an email. Read more…

Amber Harding, with the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, questions the legality of forcing those experiencing homelessness into other areas. “We do not believe that any government entity has authority to mass remove U.S. citizens from the jurisdiction they call home,” she told WTOP. Read more…

Some of the District of Columbia’s homeless residents were packing their belongings Thursday before expected sweeps to clear out remaining encampments around the nation’s capital, part of President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of policing in the city. Read more…

President Trump wants unhoused people living in Washington D.C. to get off the streets and into shelters or out of the city altogether. But his administration has so far offered few details on how it will achieve this goal. Without a detailed plan on tackling homelessness in the nation’s capital, advocates like Amber Harding, executive director of the nonprofit Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, worry the focus will be on criminalizing those who have nowhere to go. Read more…

Amber Harding, executive director of the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, said officials cleared at least two tents on a patch of green space near the Kennedy Center as Trump spoke at the performing arts center. Read more…

…Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, a nonprofit providing legal aid to people experiencing homelessness, argued the president does not have the power to move people outside the city’s borders. Read more…

In an Aug. 10 social media post, Trump suggested he would move people sleeping outside “FAR from the Capital.”  But Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, a nonprofit providing legal aid to people experiencing homelessness, argued the president does not have the power to move people outside the city’s borders. Read more…

A nonprofit in Washington, D.C., has responded to President Donald Trump’s “various threats” after he pledged to evict homeless people from the nation’s capital. Read more…

“People are not criminals or dangerous, by virtue of their unhoused status,” the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless wrote on X. People are struggling to afford rent and food in an expensive city. We should not have homelessness in our nation’s capital. But the path to ending homelessness is housing, not displacement. Read more…