Meet some of the people living at Allen Park in Truxton Circle who will either be displaced by the upcoming Dec. 2 clearing or placed into housing accommodations through the city’s new encampment pilot program.
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Homeless Truxton Circle residents brace for early December eviction amid pleas to halt encampment clearings

King of the Road: Saul Aroha Nui Tea’s path to healing through puppeteering
Street Sense Media vendor Saul Aroha Nui Tea explains how puppeteering came to play the role of therapy in his life and breaks down his latest folk opera.

2-day sit-in across from the Wilson Building protests DC police budget expansion
Members of the racial justice collective Freedom Fighters D.C. began to sit in at the plaza in protest of the mayor’s proposed police budget. Hundred joined them over the course of two days.

This Is How You Raise Up a Community
Street Sense Vendor Angie Whitehurst comments on the Shaw Community Center’s impact in the neighborhood.

Shaw Service Provider Supports New Life and New Endeavors for Homeless Women
New Endeavors by Women provides transitional and permanent supportive housing for homeless women and families through its seven housing-based programs. For 29 years, NEW staff and services have helped over 3,000 women and 500 children work towards achieving or improving employment, education and housing.

What Makes Watha T. Daniel Interim Library So Good
Street Sense Vendor Patty Smith shares how much her local library in Shaw means to her.

Spirit of Library is Alive
Reporting on the opening of the new public library in Shaw.

Battlefield Shaw
Reportin on Organizing Neighborhood Equity DC’s efforts to try to have DC fulfill promises on permanent housing.