Eric Falquero

Editorial Director

[email protected]
(202) 670-5591

Eric joined the staff as managing editor in August 2011. He was promoted to editor-in-chief in November 2014 and editorial director in April 2019. He oversees our newsroom, working to meet our audience’s information needs, producing our flagship publication, and build pathways for training and employment for our contributors. He also works strategically to collaborate with other outlets to increase coverage of homelessness beyond our pages and to support strong local journalism in our community.

Previously, Eric served on the board of the D.C. Society of Professional Journalists and taught interactive design and development at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merril College of Journalism. He learned from numerous journalism fellowships with the American Society of News Editors, the Metcalf Institute, the National Press Foundation, and the American Press Institute.

After interning with our organization in 2010, he briefly founded and published a street paper in Huntington, West Virginia, where he graduated from Marshall University with honors. He also worked for the university’s daily, The Parthenon.

Articles by

• Former resident of a DC overflow shelter presumed dead in homicide

• What can happen when the police are asked to respond to a mental health crisis in DC?

• 2020 Primary Voter Guide: 5 Questions on Poverty

• A fire displaced 4 people from a homeless encampment last week. Residents believe it was intentional.

• New Jersey Ave encampment cleanup challenges CDC COVID-19 guidelines, witness says

• Poor and homeless people are included in the CARES Act stimulus, but will probably have to “raise their hand” to get it

• Community meeting aims to prepare K Street encampment residents for eviction

• At least 117 people died without a home in DC this year

• 16,500 DC residents will lose access to food stamps under Trump Administration

• Nonprofit to convert Adams Morgan church into "Justice Housing"

• Fourth annual local news blitz on homelessness

• These formerly homeless mothers entered Washingtonian's Cutest Baby contest

• DC officials, businesses, and service providers rally around residents affected by the government shutdown

• Homeless Persons Memorial Day 2018

• DC landlord sued for refusing housing vouchers

• Vendor Memorial: Charles Davis

• An event to celebrate new art where homeless people used to live was scheduled for the morning of an encampment cleanup

• This court-appointed receiver filed eviction suits in bulk against tenants of two properties it intends to sell

• Long sought-after downtown day center to open for homeless community

• Frederick Douglass: Editor, publisher, local Washingtonian

• Man stabbed 15 times in CCNV shelter lobby

• Vendor Memorial: Leonard Hyater Jr.

• Fatal batch of synthetic drugs sickens community

• Suspect sought in Judiciary Square shooting

• Man found dead on F Street NW

• Murder near 2nd & D

• Obituary: Matthew Joseph Farkas

• The 2018 D.C. Homeless Crisis Reporting Project "news blitz"

• 2018 Primary Voters Guide: 5 Questions on Homelessness

• Government closes camp across the street from homeless services nonprofit

• One percent of the D.C. budget is more than enough to end chronic homelessness, marchers say

• Drop-in center quietly re-opens in Georgetown

• From one filmmaker to another: Franklin Garcia breaks down DC Statehood, TV production and community support

• The day the GOP tax bills were reconciled by Congress, in photos

• Vendor Memorial: The mysterious, masonic "Mick" Matthews

• National Homeless Persons' Memorial Day 2017

• The Brazilian housing crisis in a single image, on display at Dupont Underground

• "Where else can we go?" ask residents of an embattled D.C. homeless encampment

• Everyone needs a "gravity assist" to get through life, says NASA's Dr. Jim Green

• The agony and the ecstasy of Wendell Williams

• Planning for Winter 2017-18

• New Laws to Govern Homeless Community

• Missing You, Michael Stoops

• City Homeless Services Find MLK Library Hard to Replace

• The March: Outside Looking In

• LIVE: Homeless Persons' Memorial Day 2016

• NMAAHC: A Good Starting Point

• Behind the Music: Prophets of Rage puts economic disparity center stage

• Voter's Guide: 2016 D.C. Primary Elections

• Summer Outlook: MPD Turning the Tide on Synthetic Drugs?

• The Mother of the Street Paper Movement: Wendy Oxenhorn’s Beautiful Dance with Social Work

• CCNV Residents Say They Need Case Management and Accountability More than Anything

• Sidewalk Ministry Seized as Evidence

• LIVE: National Homeless Persons' Memorial Day 2015

• No Right to Avoid Shelter: Tent City Dwellers Highlight Poor Shelter Alternatives

• Documentary to be Screened in DC Claims Controversial Camps Signal Rise in Homelessness

• MPD takes no chances with a homeless man near Farragut Square

• #CampWatergate Controversy Continues

• City Prepares to Disband Virginia Avenue Camp of Homeless People

• Seeking Shelter in D.C. During Hurricane Joaquin

• Vendor Profile:
  Ken Martin

• HUD Awards Billions for Homeless Services

• Coalition Calls for a More "Human" Budget

• Vendor Profile:
  The Morrow

• Arlington Winter Emergency Shelter Extends Operations

• D.C. Advocates Plunge into National Public Toilet Movement

• Rest in Peace, Pieus Ennels

• The Longest Night of the Year

• Housing facility sets new standard for homeless services

• Champion Boxers Driven by Past to Fight for District's Future

• Everyone In D.C. has a Marion Barry Story

• In Spite of Court Setback, Ivy City Residents Fight On

• Ivy City Preliminary Injunction Comes Under Fire in Status Hearing

• Pickin' for Sasha Bruce Youthwork

• Ivy City Air Quality Worries Residents

• Appeals Court Considers Ivy City Plan

• The Fight for Ivy City

• Urban Garden Offers Inspiration and Sustenance

• Vendor Profile:
  Timothy Donelson

• Community Rallies to Get Homeless to Safety

• Counting the Survivors

• Unfinished Business