By Molly Kraybill Street Sense In American suburbs, poverty is growing. Between 2000 and 2011 the number of poor people living in suburban are...
By Mary Otto Street Sense With help from housing and assistance programs, homelessness has decreased slightly in the Washington region in the past...
By Sydney Franklin Street Sense For 24 years, the Fannie Mae Help the Homeless Walkathon brought crowds of spirited marchers to the heart of Washi...
By Mary Otto Street Sense Past the crowd waiting at the metal detector and the laminated signs pointing to disability assistance and burial assis...
By Meagan Ramsay Street Sense Move over cherry trees, there's a new orchard in town. On 2.75 acres in Beltsville, Md., just 30 minutes from D.C...
One D.C. newspaper has seen its circulation rise a whopping 200 percent since 2003. Street Sense is sold on the street by homeless people seeking to educate Washington's workforce about the issues associated with homelessness.
By Evi Mariani Street Sense Steve Cherenfant, 21, considers himself lucky. Although he grew up in what he called an “unstable environment,” he...
By Anna Salinas Street Sense Freddie Smith was determined to stay free. Newly released from a prison sentence in D.C. in 2008, he had been in and ...
By Jessilyn Justice Street Sense When District officials made plans late last year to renovate rooms for 100 additional homeless families at the o...
By Brandon Cooper Street Sense Lewis Russell, 55, of Hyattsville, Md., has been unemployed for more than a year and a half. He came to the 16th...
By Ted Henson Street Sense Volunteer Ted Henson, co-founder of Street Sense talks with Stephen Baron, the mental health director for the District ...
By Mary Otto Street Sense A list of the homeless dead is by nature incomplete, steadily unfolding. The lives of the homeless are often cut two or ...
By Hannah Morgan Street Sense A 17-ounce box of Frosted Flakes cereal costs around $3 in many local stores. Add a gallon of milk, another $4, and ...
I continually ask myself: Could I have done something to make myself homeless? So, I begin to think of the road I have traveled to get here.
The world's best jockeys will on Saturday vie for a $2.1 million purse and a chance at the Triple Crown in the 2011 Kentucky Derby. The winner of t...
