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Stop Cuts that Hurt! Housing Ends Homelessness
What you need to know: No children will be provided lifesaving shelter until next winter. The Administration has no plan to change that policy. Families requesting shelter who have no safety plan for where to stay will be reported to CFSA. CFSA currently has no housing resources to assist such families. The Mayor’s budget proposal […] Read more…
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End the Hunger Games: Housing Ends Homelessness
Last week, we told you about the dramatic increase in family and child homelessness in DC over the past four years, in particular over this past winter season, and the District’s ineffective and punitive current response to that crisis. The Administration does not deny that its policy of not placing any new families in shelter […] Read more…
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Real Life Hunger Games: Are Children Being Sacrificed In Our Nation’s Capital?
Sarah* and her two young kids have lived in DC their entire lives. Sarah works 7 days a week as a hair stylist but only makes $1,100 a month. Sarah and her children were recently put out by Sarah’s mother. Every night Sarah tries to find someone to take her kids while she spends most […] Read more…
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A Journey Home
We mark our 25th anniversary this year and look to this important occasion not as a celebration, but rather as a call to action. With nearly 7,000 people homeless in the nation’s capital on any given day (about 40% of whom are in families), and tens of thousands of households struggling to find housing that […] Read more…
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Making One City Possible
On Saturday, February 11th from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm Mayor Gray will hold a “One City Summit” at the WalterE.WashingtonConvention Center. (You can register here or by calling (202) 709-5132.) The purpose of the summit is twofold: to provide an opportunity for DC residents to voice their concerns and priorities for the District, and […] Read more…
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WLCH’s “Fact Sheet on Homelessness and Poverty”
Approximately 14 years ago, the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless drafted for the first time a document which has since come to be known simply as “The Fact Sheet.” This document was originally entitled “Homelessness in D.C.—Some Basic Facts”, but eventually evolved into the “Fact Sheet On Homelessness and Poverty.” It was initially conceived of […] Read more…
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Oversight Roundtable on Winter Plan
Today, starting at 2pm, the District of Columbia Council’s Committee on Human Services is conducting a roundtable to discuss the Department of Human Services’ plan to protect the lives of people who are homeless this winter. Below is the testimony that will be delivered by Legal Clinic Staff Attorney Amber W. Harding. Council of the […] Read more…
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{Client Victories – 6/14/2011}
When Alison Battiste, an attorney with Kalorama Partners, first met her client, LB, at our Unity Clinic intake site, LB had no source of income and no place to call her own. After many months of work, Alison won over $900 per month in Social Security disability benefits for LB. But Alison didn’t stop there. […] Read more…
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Open Letter to Chairman Brown
Dear Chairman Brown: In large measure due to your leadership, over 1500 District residents struggling with homelessness have been sleeping a little easier since May 25th. Especially in these challenging fiscal times, we at the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless want you to know how very grateful our community is that the Council was […] Read more…
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Mind the [Wealth] Gap!
Guest blog post by Stephanie Niedringhaus Each day, as I walk between Washington’s Union Station and my office, I see people who are either homeless or in difficult housing situations. I buy Street Sense from some, chat with others. Whether I am walking past or stopping to talk, I am always conscious of the U.S. Capitol […] Read more…
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