Lyft started a pilot program offering 400 scooters in D.C., and residents with proof of low-income who qualify for a form of “welfare” like Medicaid or SNAP, can get a Lyft scooter subscription for just $5 per month. Low-income residents in D.C. have less access to public transportation like the Metro.
Content categorized as Criminalization of Homelessness
Lyft offers a low-income discount on scooters in DC. It also lobbied against a tax to fund shelter beds in San Francisco.
The non-solution solutions to end homelessness
The Western Regional Advocacy Project discusses common “solutions” to poverty that, while having the best of intentions, do not stop the epidemic of homelessness and waste millions of dollars.
United Nations report: The U.S. has the wealth to end homelessness and chooses not to
United Nations Special Rapporteur Philip Alston visited several locations throughout the United States to observe and report on extreme poverty and its human rights implications.
D.C. Council examines city’s bathroom shortage
The D.C. Council Committee on Transportation and the Environment held a public hearing Jan. 10 to discuss Bill 22-0223, the Public Restroom Facilities Installation and Promotion Act of 2017. The bill seeks to increase access to restrooms in downtown neighborhoods where they are scarce. Community representatives testified to the benefit such an initiative would have for tourists, residents, and the homeless alike.
D.C. ACLU sues U.S. Marshals for degrading eviction
The American Civil Liberties Union D.C. filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Marshals Service for an eviction that occurred in June 2015, where marshals entered the home of a woman with weapons drawn and evicted her and her twelve-year-old daughter.
D.C. needs public toilets
A Street Sense Media vendor shares her views on the availability of public restrooms.
McKinney-Vento 30th Anniversary 2017 Awards Ceremony: Empathy Matters
A description of the McKinney-Vento Awards and the law behind them.
Gone home
A poem about rights.
Count your blessings
Betty Everett reminds us to love what we have.
DC benches are disappearing
Debora Brantley speaks out against hostile architecture.
Don’t define me by where I sleep
Jacquelyn Portee tells her story.
“Where else can we go?” ask residents of an embattled D.C. homeless encampment
One man was arrested while resisting a group eviction of homeless people illegally camping in tents on public space across from the U.S. State Department. Two cleanups were held over seven days. Tents returned to the area both nights.
Controversial HSRA bill passes first vote
In Nov. 7th vote D.C. council passes the Homeless Services Reform Act of 2017 and debated several additional changes. The bill governs qualifications and rights for people in the human services system, the act must pass a second vote in D.C. council.
Trying to do my job
Marcellus Phillips talks about being asked to leave a location, while selling his Street Sense newspapers, by a police detective.
Street cement
Vendor/Artist James Davis writes a moving poem about the persecution homeless people face.
We’re really stuck
Robert Williams speaks out about income inequality.
Stop Bulldozing The Homeless
Sheila White gives her opinion on a encampment that was destroyed with a bulldozer.
Grosso Introduces Landmark Civil Rights Amendment to Protect Homeless Washingtonians
An amendment was introduced to D.C. Council on July 11, 2017 that would make homelessness a protected class under Washington, D.C. human rights law. The bill was introduced under the name of famed homeless advocate Michael A. Stoops.
D.C. Evicts Tent Community Under NoMa Metro Bridge
D.C. government evicted an encampment under the 2nd Street bridge in northwest Washington on June 20. This cleanup was followed by a second, informal eviction at a new encampment made up of many of the recently displaced tenants.
All Kinds of People
A vendor faces discrimination and problems when trying to make a positive impact by selling Street Sense.
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