Athiyah Azeem

Shelters and Outreach Reporter

Editorial Intern — Fall 2020
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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 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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• 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 D.C. 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