Athiyah Azeem

General Assignment Reporter

Editorial Intern — Fall 2020/Spring 2021
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Athiyah Azeem recently graduated with a journalism degree from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism and has a track record in using journalism to serve marginalized communities, from minorities to immigrants. She covered the shelters and outreach beat for Street Sense Media in the fall of 2020 and was asked to stay on and expand her work. She is a co-founder and contributor to theimmigrantsbay.com and hopes to apply her skills to exposing injustices against the homeless community in D.C.

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• DC benefits program hacked; recertifications restarting soon

• Unhoused residents unite with local ANCs to prevent eviction

• 12 residents sue DC over Comp Plan the same day it is passed

• Mothers rally to pass police reform in George Floyd’s name

• Council advances Comprehensive Plan amid concerns of racial inequity

• DC reduces barriers to obtaining an ID during the pandemic for people experiencing homelessness. Will it continue?

• DC tells medically vulnerable people sheltering in hotels that permanent supportive housing vouchers have run out

• William Maggi of Washington, DC, dies at 58

• Councilmember considers buying hotels to support PEP-V shelter and convert them to housing

• An amendment 4 years in the making, with massive implications for affordable housing in DC, to be voted on in March

• DC task force recommends major investments in affordable housing to prevent crime

• DHS matches hundreds to housing

• McPherson Square cleared ahead of Trump rally

• PEP-V hovers around full capacity without enough housing options for vulnerable people

• Martha’s Table distributes food to people experiencing homelessness every day — Christmas was no exception

• Homeless people in quarantine face poor conditions, rudeness, and transphobia

• Uptick in COVID-19 also reaches DC shelters

• Eviction moratorium to extend as COVID-19 and unemployment worsens homelessness

• DMHHS conducts encampment cleanups during COVID-19 surge, advocates help residents move their belongings

• Mutual aid groups help encampment residents gear up for hypothermia season

• DCSEU green energy program helps people who have lost their homes

• Harriet Tubman residents say the shelter is still cold as hypothermia season begins

• Low-barrier shelter residents say staff abuse them amid ‘terrible’ conditions during COVID-19

• Pathways DC is working to re-enfranchise voters experiencing homelessness

• DC attorney general sues 7 discriminatory landlords and property managers