Will Schick

Staff Reporter

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Will first joined Street Sense Media as an editorial intern in 2019 and returned as an accountability reporter for both Street Sense Media and The D.C. Line in 2021. He recently earned an MFA in Creative Writing at American University. Prior to this, Will served eleven years in the Marine Corps where he did multiple deployments to Afghanistan, and the Asia-Pacific. He is also a polyglot who speaks six languages to varying degrees of fluency (Chinese, Dari, English, French, Korean, and Spanish).

Articles by Will

• Meet the neighborhood commissioners of Foggy Bottom who advocate for people experiencing homelessness

• FAQ: How to apply for housing in DC and what to expect

• Judge rules DC is not at fault for funding construction of affordable housing that fell apart soon after it was built

• Families in rapid rehousing still unsure of their future in the program

• The US doesn’t settle refugees in DC because the cost of housing is too high

• DHS causes panic among families with letter contradicting recently announced changes to rapid rehousing

• Families in rapid rehousing will be given a minimum 6 months’ notice before they will be asked to leave

• 255 households are on the waiting list for ADA-compliant housing in DCHA-managed properties

• DC Council passes the Budget Support Act

• Local teen’s message on poverty: Believe in yourself but don’t leave others behind

• Despite including additional money for housing vouchers, today’s FY22 budget vote may leave 500 rapid rehousing recipients facing termination

• Behind the council vote to tax residents making more than $250K, and other budget amendments you might not have heard about

• With the public health emergency ending, what does that mean for evictions?

• DC Council deliberates mayor’s proposed budget at last work session before their first draft is released

• DC Council passed a law prohibiting DC businesses from refusing cash. However, local cashless businesses are booming

• DC passes emergency legislation to delay evictions and protect consumers from unfair debt collection practices

• Little Free Library wants to diversify its books

• Confusion mires Zoning Commission meeting about Barry Farm and residents’ right to return

• Mayor proposes expanded funding for DCRA, ignoring a new law to break up the agency

• Local nonprofit opens transitional housing to meet growing demand among LGBTQ youth

• What a park redevelopment reveals about a community: Beyond the city’s plans to renovate the park at NJ Ave and O St NW

• Franklin Park to reopen in August

• What is DOPA? Inside the proposed changes to an unused program meant to preserve affordable housing

• DC residents owe the highest student loan debt per capita in the US. Councilmembers asked the federal government to cancel it

• DC’s proposed FY 2022 budget to increase funding for affordable housing

• Recovering from the trauma of an encampment cleanup

• Interfaith service held for those who died without a home

• Activists march to remember 117 people who died without homes in DC

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

• REVIEW: Josh Hayes's "The Invisible Class" is a film meant to inform, not entertain

• What is so complicated about homeless encampments in the District?

• 15 feet and a wall: Why some homeowners feel marginalized by the city's plan to help families without homes

• Obituary: Michael Irby of Washington DC

• How cool indifference magnifies the summer heat

• When an encampment is a single person and their stuff

• Re-framing the District’s shelter meals debate

• DC Council restores some funds to UMC and housing preservation