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As D.C. navigated its first major heat wave of summer 2025 in late June and early July, several encampment closures were cancelled and rescheduled. Read the full encampment update at streetsensemedia.org/article/dc-enc…

Although homelessness in DC decreased by 9% in 2024, housing advocates say its true scope is higher than reported, and the city’s progress is in jeopardy with few new investments for homeless services in the proposed fiscal year 2026 budget. Read more at bit.ly/4ojlo2P

Residents of a D.C.-based transitional housing program had to move out after their program was evicted in late June. The year-old program was closed amid lawsuits and allegations its leader had misrepresented his ability to fund it. Read more at streetsensemedia.org/article/a-tran…

By the end of the summer, families, some of whom have lived at the Harbor Light Center migrant shelter for months, will have had to find somewhere else to go as they are told they have to leave the District’s last city-funded migrant shelter. Read more at streetsensemedia.org/article/reside…

Do you need the brand new issue of Street Sense? Are you coming through NOMA between now and 6pm?? Come see Apollos on 4th St NE, between Morse St Florida Ave NE He's one of our newer Vendors and he's eager to get a copy into your hands!🗞️🗞️🔥

The D.C. Council took its first vote on the city budget on July 14, taking steps toward approving a fiscal year 2026 budget that reverses some proposed cuts to social services and homelessness programs. Read more online now at streetsensemedia.org/article/d-c-bu…

Street Sense's new issue is out NOW! Find your vendor to read about the migrants having to leave the city's shelter, what the budget means for homelessness programs, and a dispute at a transitional housing program that left 30 men with nowhere to go.

The District’s only agency solely focused on homelessness will soon have just one staff member due to a city-wide government hiring freeze, leading the agency to scale back its work. Read more at streetsensemedia.org/article/dc-ich…

And June's Highest Selling Vendor is the one, the only #133 Jeff McNeil @Big_crusher1000 Jeff distributed over 500 papers in June😲🗞️💯💯💯💯💯 Summer's not over tho, nor is the contest. Leave a customer kudos for YOUR vendor to help them take July! bit.ly/SSMCustomerKud…

Hundreds of D.C. residents could lose their federal housing assistance early as funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) dry up. Read more at bit.ly/3GcZj4M

The Community for Creative Non-Violence (CCNV), DC's largest emergency homeless shelter since 1984, plans to build a new co-ed facility on its site that would combine short-term shelter capacity and apartment-style affordable housing units. Read more at streetsensemedia.org/article/ccnv-s…

D.C. Mayor Bowser’s proposed budget would cut the number of work hours the city will pay for in half for a number of mental health providers, limiting the services that people receiving mental health and community support would have access to. Read more at bit.ly/3TnTioI

🎆 Good Morning, Washingtonians! 🎆 This is Jeffery McNeil — award-winning columnist, Street Sense Media vendor, and author of The Grind — checking in live from the Dupont Circle Farmers Market! 🖊️ I’ve just arrived with the freshest, realest stories in the city — Chapter 6 is…

As D.C. faces extreme heat this summer, the most vulnerable in the city, including those experiencing homelessness, are at greater risk. Read about this summer's heat plan and more at bit.ly/3TTYSPP

At D.C. Council hearings and organized rallies, housing advocates across the District are condemning Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposed cuts to social safety net and housing programs in her FY 2026 budget, released in late May. Read more at streetsensemedia.org

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June Most Improved Seller is...🥁 #592 Abel Putu! He was also 5th Highest Selling Vendor. He distributed so many newspapers and got over 50 Customer Kudos😲 Summer's not over tho, nor is the contest. Leave a kudos for your vendor to help them take July! bit.ly/SSMCustomerKud…

Remember to buy the current Street Sense Media paper before it sells out! Find a vendor near you to buy this issue! Pictured: Street Sense Vendor Jacqueline Turner poses with this issue while selling to pedestrians on F Street.

We were honored to be recognized by the D.C. chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) this year. The newsroom won five categories at this year’s Dateline Awards, and two other stories were recognized as finalists. Read more at streetsensemedia.org/article/street….

The SSM Theatre Workshop performance of For Whom the Bell Tolls at Friends Meeting Washington this past weekend was a smashing success! The final performance will be at the end of July. Stay tuned to our social media to find out how to attend! With facebook.com/FriendsMeeting…