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To curtail laws criminalizing homelessness, the U.N. committee suggests the federal government consider withdrawing funding from states that criminalize homelessness. It also encourages the U.S. government to redirect funds from police response programs to support housing and shelter options for homeless people.
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is calling on the United States to take action against an increasing number of laws criminalizing homelessness.
While the UN committee praised broader efforts to end and prevent homelessness in the United States, including the federal plan “Home, Together,” it still said the government must do more to address homelessness, according to the statement.
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There are cities like Hamburg that deprive some homeless people from other EU countries of their freedom of movement and deport them. Instead, you could advocate for all EU citizens to be entitled to accommodation anywhere in the European Union.
This is a very interesting approach, that turns around the previous practice of perhaps only getting a flat at the end of a long and very exhausting process for the people concerned.
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The area of prevention will be very important, in other words, how we can prevent people from losing their homes. We also see a dramatic drop in social housing numbers in recent years. It’s not surprising that it’s currently impossible for vulnerable groups to find a home. And there are further questions that we will discuss: that of health care, how a homeless person can get a registered address and what about a bank account? Together, as counties, civil society and the federal government, I also hope to develop quality standards for the accommodation.
Of the 400,000 new homes being built per year, 100,000 are supposed to be social housing. Probably, this goal will not be achievable for the time being. The war in Ukraine has aggravated the situation, but there was already a lack of skilled labor and material shortages when you wrote these figures in the coalition agreement. Were you too optimistic?
Why only look in to it, and not implement it? Housing First has been successfully trialed in a lot of countries and cities. The meetings for your action plan aren’t going to start until the coming year. Shouldn’t we act faster and more decisively to overcome homelessness by 2030?
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Hinz&Kunzt: The federal government has promised to overcome homelessness by 2030. Will Germany really have no homeless people in 8 years’ time?
And you really believe that seven years are enough for the implementation? Nationwide, 178,000 people were living in residential or emergency shelters in January, with an estimated 45,000 homeless people sleeping on the streets.
n a Tuesday in the middle of June in Hamburg: The German Minister for Building and Construction is due to explain at the cooperative society day how 400,000 homes should be built in Germany each year, despite explosive prices and collapsing delivery chains. But first, Klara Geywitz takes a seat in the editorial office of Hinz&Kunzt. The window has to be closed for the interview because construction noise is pushing in. “Construction is happening again in Germany, I think that’s good,” she says, mischievously pleased with her remark. That’s also what we want to discuss with the SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany) politician – but above all we want to talk about her promise to overcome homelessness in Germany by 2030. She wants her visit to Hinz&Kunzt to be understood as a sign of her dedication: “That topic is really important to me, that’s why I’m here.”
Klara Geywitz: Homelessness is such a complex problem that there will surely still be people who are living on the street. But it is important that we significantly improve conditions and implement the human right to housing: Everyone who needs a place to live should be able to get one. Support systems need to adapt to this.
Klara Geywitz wants to develop a plan to eliminate homelessness. Photo by Andreas Hornoff
Nobody in the Hollywood swing came up with this goal because they liked the number 400,000 so much. It’s based on calculations of how high the actual need is. The goal is now harder to achieve because of the terrible war. Due to the large number of people who fled to us from Ukraine, the demand has become even more urgent. That’s why it would be completely the wrong conclusion to say: “50,000 council houses are also a good thing.” We have to hold on to our goal.
What role will ‘Housing First’ play?
You have announced a national action plan that you want to develop together with local authorities, counties and homelessness service providers. What will you talk about?
How do you want to help the people that live on the street here, but because of their origins don’t have any entitlement to social benefits? Human rights apply to everyone, regardless of their nationality.
Germany is not the only country with a plan to overcome homelessness; it is a major pan-European goal. We will discuss with the Ministry of Social Affairs what can be done.
I am personally a very impatient person too, and I can understand your point. But we are re-establishing this ministry, we will create a unit to combat homelessness in the summer. The positions have to be advertised and filled. It’s important to establish a structure in which the action plan is not just written out, but also implemented.
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However, it is not as simple as just giving someone a place to live and saying: “Now your problem is solved!” After “first” must come “second” and “third.” We will look into it, also locally in Finland.
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If we carry it out well, every person in 2030 who is looking for a place to live will be able to get one. My goal is that the situation will have significantly improved, and that there will be quality standards, for example to ensure that families don’t have to live on the street.
I am the minister who should ensure that 400,000 homes will be built, and that an action plan for the fight against homelessness should be established. That will keep our ministry well occupied. I will leave a complete reconstruction of the European Union to the other colleagues.
The federal states consider this approach as central to the fight against homelessness.
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And how do you intend to control rent, when all the other measures taken up until now have not been enough?
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Hamburg is of course a very attractive city, that’s why there is high pressure in the housing market. But it is also the city that was the first to wake up when other cities were
in future price development, because there aren’t enough homes. That’s why I see a need for regulation there. In the constitutional state, however, I consider expropriations to be only the ultima ratio. On a large scale that’s not the method of choice, especially because compensating all the affected housing groups would be quite costly to the state. However, this would not change the number of homes.
We are on the verge of a fundamental transformation in the construction sector. It is important that in all debates that take place in the cabinet, the view of those who rent and those who build is also represented. For the first time in the budget negotiations, we have placed a clear focus on social housing with 14.5 billion euros until 2026.
But the rental prices would fall.
Developers are sounding the alarm, warning that new construction could grind to a halt. How can the Minister of Construction help them?
There were a lot of squatters in Potsdam when I was young. They were young people who squatted in houses left from the GDR (German Democratic Republic) era, in order to save them from demolition. There are indeed individual properties that have been converted into collective housing forms with the help of rental syndicates, with less living space per person but larger communal spaces. Property must always and constantly be respected, I would say as Minister of Construction, but it is always useful to try out new forms of housing culture.
What role will the new housing community benefit that you announced play?
And the rents are increasing anyway. In the coalition agreement, it was agreed to limit rent increases in strained housing markets to 11% in three years with the help of the cap. When are you going to implement this?
The housing group Vonovia announced in the beginning of June that rents are not increasing despite inflation, but because of it. Do you have any sympathy for the Berlin petition for a referendum to expropriate large housing corporations and put the flats in municipal hands?
happily selling off municipal housing stock.
The people of Berlin founded a commission of experts, and are finding out whether or not that is the case. I’d also be really interested in the results. In any case, the lesson that can be learned from it is that the public sector is well advised to own as much housing stock as possible.
As far as I know, Vonovia’s chairman felt misunderstood concerning that announcement. One problem is currently the index-linked rent, where rent increases are directly linked to the consumer price index. When renting a place to live, many tenants can’t choose if it will be competitive
You’re planning an “Alliance of Affordable Places to Live” at a federal level. That’s already existed in Hamburg since 2011. There’s also been a cap on renting prices in the whole city, the housing protection law forbids speculative vacancy. Despite this, rents are still increasing. What does the establishment of a Federal Ministry of Construction change?
My colleague is responsible for that, the Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann, and I’m in discussions with him. I believe it will happen this year.
The occupancy commitment in social housing is always time limited. With the legal form of nonprofit housing we will create the possibility of bringing affordable homes to the market on a permanent basis. It’s also important to me that these homes are of good quality. But I can’t yet say when we will be finished with the proposed legislation.
The urban sociologist Andrej Holm explained to us that an effective method of social housing policy can be squatting. The rent today is often still cheap in places where squatters occupied houses in the 80s. Would you agree with him, considering your past in the squatting scene?
We still have an extremely high demand, nationwide 847,000 flats are approved and just waiting for someone to build them. But the state can’t subsidize the construction costs, because that would boost the prices higher. We have to become better and more productive on construction sites, that means working with more robotics and standardization. And we are talking to the construction industry about how we can achieve security of supply for essential building materials.
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ew arrest data shows that Black D.C. residents are arrested almost seven times as often as white residents for opioid-related offenses, which advocates say bolsters their case for decriminalization and the need to move funds away from policing and into safe-use resources.
In a recent summit hosted by Live.Long.DC, the city’s strategic planning group to address the opioid crisis, representatives from the city’s Criminal Justice Coordinating Council presented demographic and geographic information on opioid arrest data from 2017 to 2022. While opioidrelated arrests have decreased in recent years, Black residents make up an overwhelming majority of those arrests. From January 2017 to April 2022, 480 white people were arrested compared to 3,342 Black people.
The most arrests in the five-year period occurred in
the Trinidad neighborhood in Ward 5, with 211 arrests, and downtown and Columbia Heights with 166 and 164 respectively. Meanwhile, most neighborhoods in Ward 3, a wealthy and predominantly white ward, reported less than 10 arrests. According to D.C.’s data, from 2017 to March 2022, the most opioid-related overdoses occurred in Wards 5, 7 and 8.
“It’s a whiter, more affluent area, where people are more likely to turn a blind eye to things like that, or people have the ability to keep their drug use kind of hidden and the cops are less likely to bother them,” says Sullivan.
Their push comes after several successful efforts to loosen drug penalties in recent years. The city legalized the possession and use of marijuana in 2014. Then, in 2020, it decriminalized possession of drug paraphernalia and made magic mushrooms and other psychedelic plants among the lowest police priorities. Steps towards harm reduction have also gained traction, including expanding the availability of Naloxone, the opioid-overdose reversal drug, and partnering with local non-profits to establish safe needle exchanges. But many advocates say these efforts fall short: as long as opioids remain criminalized, they say, Black people in D.C. will suffer the most harmful effects of those laws.
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Local advocates for decriminalization who spoke with DCist/WAMU say the data isn’t surprising but that it does underline the importance of their campaign to decriminalize possession while also pushing lawmakers to invest in harmreduction, like safe-use sites and expanded opioid testing to prevent fatal overdoses.
Queen Adesuyi, a senior national policy manager with the Drug Policy Alliance wasn’t surprised by this data — policing disproportionately impacts Black Washingtonians across the board — but says it does underscore the scale of the“It’sproblem.really demonstrating the impact of the compounded mistakes of solely focusing on criminalization as the first means of addressing overdose and then it also continues to highlight that we are not doing enough to treat drug use as a public health issue,” she said.
The data also shows that the most arrests are occurring in areas already recording high overdose rates. Advocates say this is a sign that police intervention is not helping to solve theResearchproblem.shows that criminalizing drug use leads to cultural stigma and decreases public support for policies aimed at solving the opioid crisis, by placing blame for drug use on the individual rather than the social factors like poverty, structural racism and poor public health infrastructure.Beyondthe trauma of an arrest, involvement with the criminal justice system impacts an individual’s ability to find stable housing and employment. Unstable housing makes people more likely to continue using and puts them at a higher risk of an overdose. Studies also show that incarcerated residents, if not treated adequately for substance-use while incarcerated, often return to similar levels of use after release.
Adeyusi and other advocates from organizations like the Drug Policy Alliance and HIPS are part of a years-long campaign called Decrim Poverty DC.
“(This data) builds a better case that we should consider ending the arrest of people who use drugs, and instead meeting them with the needs that they have, in terms of
Sullivan himself has witnessed the difference in policing of white and Black drug users in the city, he says. Having had many interactions with police as a past drug user, he says he saw how police treated him compared to the nonwhite people he was arrested with.
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“I was only ever just given a slap on the wrist. The (police) would come at it like, ‘oh you’re too smart for this, you shouldn’t be caught up in this, we don’t want to ruin
Evzio, a brand of injectible Naloxone used to reverse an opioid overdose. Photo by Tom Wolf /Pennsylvania Governor’s Office
The group drafted a legislative proposal in 2021, The District of Columbia Drug Policy Reform Act, which calls for decriminalizing the possession of any drug if it’s for personal use and vacating past convictions for such offenses. It would also create a variety of services, like a crisis response system within the department of health designed for drug-related emergencies, and 24/7 harmreduction centers where individuals could safely use under the supervision of trained providers equipped with overdose medication and sterile syringes.
Racial disparities in DC’s opioid arrests underscore need for decriminalization, advocates say
social support, economic support, healthcare-related support, whether it’s around their drug use, or untreated trauma, or any other health issues that a person may be dealing with,” Adesuyi says.
James Sullivan, an overdose prevention specialist with HIPS, a D.C. organization that serves sex workers, drug users, and residents experiencing homelessness, says that opioid use occurs across the city, but may not be as visible in wealthier areas, where police surveillance is not as prevalent. While there’s no available data comparing opioid use across racial groups in D.C., national statistics suggest that white and Black Americans use drugs at similar rates despite the fact that Black Americans are arrested for drugrelated offenses at significantly higher rates – a longstanding effect of America’s war on drugs.
The data comes as fatal opioid overdoses continue to rise in the city, largely driven by the now omnipresent fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid. From January to March of this year, the city recorded 92 fatal overdoses. That’s lower than the 100 recorded during the same period last year — a record-breaking one for the city with a total of 427 fatal overdoses (nearly double the death toll recorded in 2017).
Advocates say the success of these kinds of policies have been proven in other cities.
Despite the fact that Sullivan and many advocates say these kinds of resources are a “no-brainer” they still face significant political and social opposition for policies that some residents believe go too far.
To mitigate COVID spread in 2020, Baltimore stopped prosecuting drug possession, prostitution, and other lowlevel charges. The number of people incarcerated dropped by 20% after State Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s office dismissed thousands of pending cases and more than 1,400
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Live.Long.DC.’s 2019 report included a budget item of $100,000 to “consider” safe injection sites but the city has not yet laid any firm infrastructure – and the D.C. Council has not yet set up a legislative framework.
“A lot of people feel like that’s enabling drug use, which is ridiculous because people are gonna do drugs no matter what,” Sullivan says.
said he was “meeting with decriminalization advocates and weighing the options,” while Ward 6’s Charles Allen, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, said he supports exploring the idea of safe use sites.
“Unless you are mitigating for these other factors, all that criminalization will end up doing is proliferating the use, and in the absence of the treatment options that are really not as available as they need to be in Ward 7, in Ward 8 and Ward 5 it will just exacerbate the situation,” Lane says. “So yes, decriminalization, in conjunction with dealing with these other issues.”
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your life by arresting you,’” Sullivan recalls. “Whereas all of the Black and brown people who I was ever arrested with ended up thrown in jail or charged with something ridiculous, and of course, as soon as you get one charge, then it just keeps making it harder and harder in the future.”
“My own background is in public health, which has helped me see the District’s opioid crisis through that lens, rather than with the sole goal of stigmatizing or cracking down on individual users with substance use disorders. That enforcement-only approach simply doesn’t work and isn’t based in evidence,” wrote Allen in an email to DCist/ WAMU.Evenif D.C. did introduce legislation to create safe-use sites, the effort could be stymied by national lawmakers. Due to D.C.’s non-statehood status, city budget needs to be approved by Meanwhile,Congress.othergroups like the Health Alliance Network, a D.C.-based health equity group, have been pushing the city to build sobering centers, or places where intoxicated individuals can seek short-term care. They’re also pushing for a 24-hour intake and treatment center with wraparound and youth services in Ward 7. Ambrose Lane Jr., the group’s founder, says that decriminalizing the possession or use of drugs will only be successful if the city adequately funds the infrastructure to support all aspects of health, like housing, income disparities, and healing from trauma.
While the D.C. police department tells DCist/WAMU that they do not “typically” conduct arrests when responding to an overdose call, outreach advocates say that after reported overdoses, policing typically increases in the surrounding areas. When two or more overdoses occur within a twoblock radius, the city’s Department of Behavioral Health deems these areas “hot spots.” (This occurred earlier this year, when the city reported 29 overdoses in a 48-hour period.) Advocates say this increased police presence contributes to fear and intimidation that can make it difficult for workers like Sullivan to get resources to those who need them.According to the data presented at the summit, 14% of all narcotic-related arrests from 2017 to 2022 were instances in which an opioid-related offense was the top charge with possession of a controlled substance as the most common offense. According to the city’s Department of Corrections, a small percentage of solely opioid-related offenses result in incarceration.“Justbecause somebody is not convicted doesn’t mean they’re not experiencing trauma – either of arrest or the threat of arrest,” says Shane Sullivan, also an outreach worker with HIPS and advocate who has been pushing for decriminalization and safe consumption sites for years.
warrants for nonviolent crimes. In 2021, Mosby made the policy permanent. A study from Johns Hopkins University found that from April 2020 to May 2021, 443 drug and paraphernalia possession charges were avoided as a result of the policy (78% of which were in the Black community), and less than one percent of people who had drug or prostitution charges dropped were arrested again on a more seriousSafe-usecharge.sites, or safe-consumption sites, are clinical settings where people can use street drugs under medical supervision with access to clean supplies and wrap-around services. These centers currently exist in Canada, Australia, and a number of European countries, and have been proven to reduce fatal overdose rates. New York City became the first city in the U.S. to officially operate safe consumption sites in 2021. (Just this week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill for safe injection sites.)
A yarn tapestry by artist London, weaved into a gate during the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020. Photo by Athiyah Azeem
Still, a survey of D.C. voters conducted by the Drug Policy Alliance in 2021 found that 83% supported removing criminal penalties for possession of small amounts of drug possession and 93% supported the creation of a 24/7 harm reductionDCist/WAMUcenter. reached out to all councilmembers about these issues but none responded with concrete plans. A spokesperson for Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White
But the biggest critique Street Sense heard from encampment residents is that engagements give little attention to DMHHS’s
given that D.C. residents only have a legal right to shelter during extremely cold or hot days. Commonly, people who sleep outside say they do so to avoid poor conditions and strict rules at shelters. Encampments allow people experiencing homelessness to form a community and live independently, according to Coco Leonard, who lived in a tent near Mount Vernon Square before NPS cleared the community on Aug. 25.
“We’re still homeless, we’re still broke, but we have what we need,” Leonard said.
Between June 1 and Aug. 24, city and federal government agencies conducted 17 encampment engagements, including one outside of the Church of the Epiphany, which houses the offices of Street Sense Media. The Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services (DMHHS) and the National Park Service (NPS) fully closed seven of those 17 encampments, permanently displacing over 50 people.
Street Sense spoke to 21 encampment residents who experienced an engagement this summer to better understand the process. Most encampment residents said they generally agree with the city’s stated goals, but feel as though the city’s expectations for engagements are inconsistent with the realities of homelessness. Several people suggested that the city could provide more resources to help unsheltered residents clean encampments and prepare, reducing both the need for and the trauma of engagements.
itting outside the bright red doors of the Church of the Epiphany, Colleen peered at her tent on the sidewalk. Soon, city workers would order her to remove it in preparation for the day’s encampment engagement. Colleen’s friends were inside the tent, sorting through her belongings. But with the blaring August sun in her good eye, she couldn’t tell what her friends were placing in the trash bag and what they were placing in the “keep” bag. “I want to keep all that,” she called out to them. She hoped they heard her.
DMHHS — which oversees the encampment engagements conducted by the D.C. government — defines an encampment as “a set-up of an abode or place of residence of one or more persons on public property.” They’re found most often in parks and underpasses, and can have just one resident or a few dozen. Some encampments have portable toilets. As the proportion of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness has increased nationwide, some D.C. residents have expressed frustration that the city has not done more to remove tents.
Encampment residents generally say concerns about safety and cleanliness are overblown. Many residents clean as much as limited trash cans will allow, Leonard said. And encampment residents often say they’re the ones who are unsafe, facing vitriol from their housed neighbors.
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DC conducts at least 70 encampment engagements each year. Are they effective?
“It does accomplish something — ruffling our feathers,” said Melvin, a resident at an encampment DMHHS closed this summer. “That’s what it does. Just to keep us on our toes.” (Like most of the people quoted in this story, Melvin agreed to speak on the condition that only his first name be used to protect his privacy.)
At least 690 people experience unsheltered homelessness in D.C. on any given night, according to D.C.’s Point-in-Time Count, sleeping in doorways, on sidewalks and in public green spaces. They may have no other option if shelters are full,
D.C. first adopted rules about how and when the city can clean encampments in 2005, after years of sweeps occurring absent any set schedule and with workers unpredictably throwing out the belongings of people living outside. The city has conducted over 530 encampment engagements since 2015, when DMHHS began posting engagement data online.
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NPS — which handles encampment engagements on federally owned parkland under its own guidelines, not the city’s — cites similar concerns. In the two months before NPS closed the Mount Vernon Square encampment, U.S. Park Police reported making 25 arrests at the site and seizing two handguns and $12,000 in narcotics, according to Mike Litterst, NPS communications chief.
DMHHS workers take down a tent in front of Street Sense on August 16. Photo by Annemarie Cuccia
Encampment residents speak out
Colleen’s friends carried her “keep” pile — several bulging black garbage bags — into the courtyard behind the church gates. She couldn’t stay where she had slept the night before, but her belongings would be safe on private property just a few feet away. Already tired from the day and worried her heart murmur would act up, Colleen sat on a stone bench beside her longtime neighbor, Carlton. He was sitting on a folding chair, surrounded by everything he owned.
Carlton woke up early the morning of the engagement. Living so close to the White House, he’d seen a lot, but he’d never been through an engagement before. Carlton wasn’t worried, though. He learned a long time ago the only thing he could do was be patient. So he rolled his red canvas wagon behind the church’s gates, unfolded a camping chair and settled in.
Some businesses also push for encampments to be cleaned or closed. A 2021 report from the DowntownDC Business Improvement District expressed concern that the presence of encampments reduces economic activity. The organization’s business plan calls for the removal of encampments when possible, paired with outreach and housing.
D.C. conducts between 70 and 100 of these encampment engagements every year, discarding trash and removing bulk waste in the areas surrounding tent communities. Encampment residents often have to move during engagements, either temporarily or permanently. City officials say these measures are necessary to protect public health and safety and to help connect unsheltered residents to housing opportunities. But many encampment residents share a different view — they characterize encampment engagements as disruptive events that do little more than traumatize people and rarely, if ever, connect people to housing.
DMHHS encourages city residents to report new tent communities via a telephone hotline and email address. “Our protocol for cleaning public spaces is triggered when a site presents a security, health, or safety risk, and/or interferes with community use of such places,” the DMHHS page reads. DMHHS did not provide comment by the time of publication.
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instances of theft and drug use in the encampment, according to emails obtained by Street Sense via a Freedom of Information Act request. They also complained about overflowing trash cans and rodents.
“They treated us homeless people like we were the disease,” said Sean, a resident at an encampment in the Dupont Circle area where DMHHS conducted a cleanup on Aug. 2. “They were treating us like we were second-class, third-class citizens.”
The city’s policy has substantial support — a February Washington Post poll showed three-quarters of Washingtonians are in favor of the city clearing large encampments. When housed residents ask the city to remove encampments, they generally cite DMHHS’s first goal: keeping areas clean and safe.Before DMHHS closed an encampment at Allen Park in the Truxton Circle neighborhood in December 2021, several housed residents wrote to their councilmember alleging
When encampment residents are prepared (as Carlton and Colleen were), the cleanup can go smoothly. But across the city, other residents have rushed to pack up their tents at engagements conducted in recent months. If residents are resisting or running behind, DMHHS workers decide whether to dispose of possessions immediately or to give residents extra time. At least four residents Street Sense spoke to this summer lost a significant portion of their belongings during an encampment engagement. On one occasion, Sean said, he watched DMHHS workers unknowingly throw away his mother’s ashes. These experiences can lead to long-lasting trauma, said Aaron Howe, the co-founder of mutual aid group Remora House who has been attending cleanups since 2018.
Through black iron rails, Carlton watched three men sweep the pavement he’d slept on the night before. It didn’t take long; he kept things clean. As Carlton waited for the powerwashing truck to arrive, the sun warmed the spot where he sat. He closed his eyes.
In the lead-up to engagements this summer, outreach workers from the nonprofit Pathways to Housing enrolled residents in D.C.’s coordinated entry system and made sure
Supporters of encampment clearings argue engagements leave sites cleaner and safer. Litterst said that criminal activity near Union Station decreased after NPS cleared the encampment.Butencampment residents argue there are other ways to achieve these outcomes — methods that might come with
Carlton reclaimed his 6 feet of sidewalk, setting up his row of camping chairs that greet everyone exiting the Church of the Epiphany. He looked down at the lanyard that hung around his neck. It held a single key. One day, he hopes to add another key — one for an apartment — to go along with it. But for now, he relaxed, glad the engagement was over and hopeful it wouldn’t happen again anytime soon.
In 2021, Mayor Muriel Bowser launched the Coordinated Assistance and Resources for Encampments (CARE) Pilot Program to pair permanent encampment closures with housing vouchers for residents. But the city has applied the highprofile program to only four sites thus far, and the city’s other encampment engagements do not come with the same level of outreach and casework to help residents obtain permanent housing via vouchers.
“Everyone has the same goal and desire to be safe and comfortable,” Leonard said. She and other encampment residents want to keep their areas clean, she explained; they’re just up against limited trash can space and a lack of running water. If the city provided more of these amenities, she suggested, engagements might not be necessary. People living outside, including Street Sense vendor Lori Smith, have also called for D.C. to provide more public restrooms, which
could also prevent some waste.
“Just give us the housing you said you was going to give us, and then there won’t be no problem,” J.P. said. “You get people’s hopes up for nothing.”
Atmika Iyer, Hope Davis and Holly Rusch contributed to this report. This article was co-published with The DC Line.
The day of an engagement
After a permanent closure, residents often scatter to other established encampments, relying on mutual aid and outreach workers to help them transport their belongings. What they can’t carry, they leave behind. Residents consistently said they are tired and discouraged after clearings. They may be uprooted from their neighborhoods and miles away from the people they care about. And they may feel no closer to housing.
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fewer negative second- and third-order effects.
Almost all residents told Street Sense they’d leave their encampment in a heartbeat if they had somewhere safe to live inside. But they all ended the day of the engagement the same way they started it — living on the streets.
After Colleen moved back, her tent wasn’t quite the same. It used to feel permanent, having withstood years of weather. But now it leaned forward in an odd way. The front wall hung a few inches above the ground, fluttering in the wind. Her street looked different, too. Two of her neighbors who’d left before the engagement hadn’t come back yet. She’d been sorting through the trash bags her friends packed her things into. She couldn’t find her can opener.
On the day of the engagement, DMHHS arrives about half an hour before the clearing is scheduled to start. Residents are often packing, sometimes with the help of Pathways and similar organizations, mutual aid groups or individual community members. Except in the case of a trash-only cleanup, DMHHS workers are authorized to discard anything still in the area once the engagement officially begins.
If D.C. is going to conduct engagements, the city could pair them with free food and water to help residents through the moving process, suggested Hasan, a former resident of the Mount Vernon Square encampment. At least three residents whose encampments have been closed this summer suggested D.C. could provide transportation to a new location, so residents don’t have to leave behind belongings. D.C. currently provides free transportation only to a storage site.
Site closures operate like full cleanups, but residents are prohibited from returning.
residents have been waiting more than a decade for their name to come up on the District’s voucher and public housing waitlist. Others are stuck in the slow process of getting a Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) voucher; despite funding 2,400 such vouchers this year, D.C. has housed only about 600 people so far.
For full cleanups, the most frequent type, residents have to move all belongings off site by a certain time. DMHHS workers remove anything left behind, and they sweep or rake away dirt and debris. Sometimes, full cleanups are accompanied by a power-wash. Residents can return when the cleaning is finished — normally about three hours later.
The D.C. government’s encampment engagements come in three tiers: trash-only engagements, full cleanups, and closures.
NPS workers carry a tent to the garbage truck at Mount Vernon Square on Aug. 24. Photo by Annemarie Cuccia
The city closed two encampments in late July, one on FedEx property on Eckington Place NE and one located near Shaw Middle School at Garnet-Patterson. NPS closed three encampments downtown over the summer, including one at Union Station and another at Mount Vernon Square.
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Carlton, while grateful the church’s proximity gave him a place to wait out the engagement, pointed out that not everyone has that option. He suggested the city put encampment residents in a hotel with their possessions for a day while the city cleans the area. This policy could have helped Hasan — on the day of the clearing, he was headed to dialysis, a four-hour endeavor that leaves him exhausted. A friend was able to look after his belongings, but he didn’t know where he’d be able to rest after theOverwhelmingly,appointment.
Two weeks before a city-led engagement, D.C. posts a sign notifying encampment residents. According to the city’s protocol, this must be accompanied by outreach from DMHHS, the D.C. Department of Human Services, the D.C. Department of Behavioral Health and contracted service providers. The agencies are supposed to offer temporary and permanent
During trash-only engagements, city workers remove bulk waste. Authorities allow residents to keep their tents in place. Trash-only cleanups were common during the first two years of the pandemic, but DMHHS conducted only one this summer.
second stated goal — “enroll residents in safer, healthier living arrangements.”Someencampment
Several Mount Vernon Square encampment residents left behind possessions during the encampment removal on Aug. 24. NPS workers threw away anything still in the area. Photo by Annemarie Cuccia
NPS workers look through belongings residents left behind at an encampment near Mount Vernon Square on Aug. 24. Photo by Annemarie Cuccia
they knew about shelter options. Ahead of NPS’s closure of the Union Station encampment in June, Pathways connected some residents to PEP-V, which provides housing accommodations for individuals who are medically vulnerable, and “bridge housing,” which provides temporary shelter for people in the voucher process.
housing placements when available but do not publicly track how many residents are housed, as they do for the CARE pilot.
residents at encampments closed by DMHHS and NPS said they’d be more willing to move if engagements fulfilled the city’s second goal of connecting residents to housing. Sean and his friend J.P., who also lives at the Dupont Circle encampment, were told in February they’d have housing by July. With rumors swirling that their encampment is at risk of permanent closure, they’re both still waiting. Neither has tremendous confidence: J.P.’s case managers have expressed concern that they might not be able to find him if he moves, and Sean said his case manager lost his birth certificate.
So why are the police telling people to stop giving the Lord praise because people are complaining about it? These days, riding public transportation, which I hate now, I’ve heard people play and say very disrespectful things that are not meant for children and others to hear -- music about sex, drugs, alcohol, selling their souls, murder, etc.-- but no one complains about it. As soon as a person such as myself starts
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playing music about the Lord, speaking about the Lord, worshiping the Lord -- then it’s a problem. I’ve been cursed at, almost gotten into fights, almost arrested, and threatened. We are supposed to have the police, the people who swore to the same person that I give praise to, to protect us from evil people like that, but we don’t. So if the police are not going to protect our right to practice our religion, what do we do? The only other option is gun violence, and that’s not what we’re about. What about people who are homeless and have no other place to worship?
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I’m writing this article because there’s a lot going on in our country as far as gun violence. Look at all the mass shootings, where kids are being murdered in schools. Mass shootings in malls, mass shootings at the grocery store. No place is safe. I do believe in the right to bear arms, but the wrong people have arms in this country. No 18-year-old kid should be able to purchase a firearm. But they are so easy to get. I don’t believe our government can control gun violence or ever stop the illegal guns from hitting the streets.
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Once the guns hit the streets, then comes the drive-by, the shootouts and the innocent people going about their daily activities getting murdered.
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As a formerly homeless citizen, I experienced that prejudice firsthand. A lot of people are not there for you, because they judge you on account of the hard times and evil people they have encountered. Doors are shut in your face, people frown at you, people ignore you, and some people even steal and worse.
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So answer me this, readers, do you call the police on someone with a gun or a Bible? Which one are you most afraid of?
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I know you have had some kind of gun violence in your neighborhood. It does not matter if you live in Dupont Circle or the Anacostia neighborhoods, the guns are there.
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Juveniles should also be held accountable no matter what age they are. If an underage person is involved in a mass shooting or possesses an illegal firearm, they should be charged as an adult. One other law that I like that Australia is calling for is a limit to the number of firearms a license holder can have to five. We should do the same.
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On top of the fact that any race besides white is already deemed as disturbing in America, being homeless and Black is another. From my understanding, the First Amendment to the Constitution states that I have the freedom of speech and the freedom to practice my religion, but considering who I am, that’s not seeming at all likely these days.
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My mom, sister and my 15-year-old nephew were all killed by guns. I used to like guns, but now I’m scared of them. Or am I scared of the person carrying it? Every morning I watch the news, every day someone gets shot with a gun. I know more than 30 people who were killed with a firearm. When will it stop?
have people always been like this, just been hiding behind whatever it is they hide behind? I’ve had the police called on me multiple times for practicing my religion and beliefs, which the constitution states I am free to do as a U.S citizen. I’ve been told to stop practicing my religion, or get arrested. I’ve chosen on many occasions to get arrested and still will. If they’re doing it to me, imagine how they are afflicting people currently experiencing homelessness. We are supposed to be protected from situations such as this.
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So who do people like me turn to? We pray and ask God to help us. From my understanding that’s what we as rational human beings do, but for some reason, that seems to be a problem for people nowadays. Is it the pandemic or
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Here in America we have a long way to go to make our neighborhoods safer. We must first start with changing our gun laws and gun control. Stiffer laws can save many lives. No one knows better than me what it means to lose family members to gun violence.
Why is it so easy to possess a firearm in this country? I believe it’s so easy because of our gun laws. We here in America have weak gun laws, so it’s not that hard to buy one.For a contrast, let’s take a look at Australia ‘s gun laws. In 1996, in Tasmania 35 people were killed and 23 injured. Immediately after this massacre, Australia’s governments went into action by banning civilians from owning all semiautomatic, pump-action shotguns and rifles. Australia has not had a mass shooting since.
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There have been more than 300 mass shootings here in America this year alone. If our government were to clamp down on who and what kind of firearms can be purchased and who can possess them, I believe many lives could be saved. Ban all semi-automatic and automatic weapons from
In spite of those setbacks, I've persisted in my life. My struggles to this point have not only offered me clarity but stability. I’m still able to prosper off of my old dreams and ideas and concepts that I've had to lay aside whilst dealing and coping with real life issues. I get to speak of these things in my poetical conjurings.
Now that I have my own housing and a computer of my very own, I successfully completed three books. Two of them were chock full of the classic poems penned of old and new rendering.
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A lot of people say that you have tantrums because you are selfish or out of control, which is why most of the time, children have this problem. For sure, adults have them, too. I suffered from this problem in my younger years. I got it under control now. Believe me, it’s a terrible feeling when you don’t get what you want. You get hot. You feel weak. Your stomach hurts. You are so annoyed that you want to kill. You can’t check your breath. Sometimes, you faint. So, it’s like having a fit. Lots of people think a good spanking will stop it. But I don’t think so.
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When my daughter was four years old, she sprawled herself under the table while we were at dinner at a restaurant. I didn’t know what to do. I thought she was having a fit of some kind, and she turned red and screamed. I begged her to please get up, which fell on deaf ears. Then, I told her I would beat her. She still didn’t stop. Finally, I picked her up and took her to the bathroom and washed her face, held her tight and reasoned with her. She could get what she wanted if she would only eat a little of what I wanted her to.
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Technology has made a whole world of difference in my life. I used to never be able get any work done at home when I stayed with my mother. Sure she had a PC. but it didn't have internet. And I could never seem to figure out how to work it.
So I went to the public library, like daily! I'd try to find the places that were open on Sundays too. They gave you only 30 minutes of time back then to spend on the computer, so you kind of had to be game ready. You could happen up on some extra time from time to time but still it wasn't enough for me as far as being published was going.This one other guy Andre, I believe, managed to get his book published with lulu.com. He later took over poetry.com shortly after. I managed to publish a piece called “4:20 in the afternoon” with their newly branched out and folded publishing company called Watermark Books.
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Fighting back, while under attack I need to be off the streets. Looking for a place for me, homelessness Is in route, coming to its end with Endless nights of sleepless nights This is not the place for me. Off the streets Is the place for living life To me.
Summer is coming to an end in the middle of September. Labor Day is around the corner. People will be traveling in or out of town or having a cookout in their backyard. Fall and winter are arriving soon. The birds are signing and the wind and flowers are blooming. The news is talking about monkeypox. They encourage students to get vaccinated before going to class. Hope you all stay safe.
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Fall is coming. Time is running. Wind is coming. Trees are changing. The fall season, for some reason, gives me a great feeling. Orange and colorful leaves with a kick of a cool breeze. Children make believe.
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My dreams come true while I catch a fallen drop. The new season comes as the bunny takes its hop. I can’t wait for fall. Just so I can see what it is all about. I know, I can’t pout.
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Now is time to move on, go With the thought to explore Life on the creative side of town
Looking forward to my lil kindergartener learning and having fun exploring around. I’m looking forward to my child going on field trips and experimenting with finger paints.
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Christ House // 202-328-1100 1717 Columbia Rd., NW christhouse.org
Friendship Place // 202-364-1419 4713 Wisconsin Ave., NW friendshipplace.org
Whitman-Walker Health
Multiple opportunities across Wegmans store. Cashier, parking lot attendant, e-commerce store shopper, custodian, dishwasher, product stocker, restaurant foods and fresh foods customer service.
Team Member
The Welcome Table // 202-347-2635 1317 G St., epiphanydc.org/thewelcometableNW.
Línea directa de violencia doméstica 1-800-799-7233
HOTLINESHELTER
Community of Hope // communityofhopedc.org202-540-9857
- Healthcare for the Homeless Health Center: 202-508-0500
All
Samaritan Inns // 202-667-8831 2523 14th St., samaritaninns.orgNW
Sasha Bruce Youthwork // 202-675-9340 741 8th St., sashabruce.orgSE
2204 Martin Luther King Ave. SE
Catholic Charities // 202-772-4300 924 G St., catholiccharitiesdc.org/gethelpNW
Chipotle // 1010 Vermont Ave NW
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HEALTHBEHAVIORALHOTLINE
Línea directa de alojamiento (202) 399-7093
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updated May 25, 2022
1500 Galen Street SE, 1251-B Saratoga Ave NE, 1660 Columbia Road NW, 4414 Benning Road NE, 3946 Minnesota Avenue NE, 765 Kenilworth Terrace NE, 3240 Stanton Road SE, 3020 14th Street NW, 1717 Columbia Road NW, 1313 New York Avenue, NW BSMT Suite, 425 2nd Street NW, 4713 Wisconsin Avenue NW, 1333 N Street NW, 1355 New York Avenue NE, 828 Evarts Place NE, 810 5th Street NW, 850 Deleware Avenue SW, 65 Massachusetts Avenue NW, 4515 Edson Place NE
Case Management Coordinación de Servicios
Miriam’s Kitchen // 202-452-8926 2401 Virginia Ave., NW miriamskitchen.org
N Street Village // 202-939-2076 1333 N St., nstreetvillage.orgNW
My Sister’s Place // 202-529-5261 (24-hr hotline) mysistersplacedc.org
Education Educación Food Comida
REQUIRED: N/A
services listed are referral-free
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Central Union Mission // 202-745-7118 65 Massachusetts Ave., NW missiondc.org
Legal Assistance Assistencia Legal Showers Duchas
Unity Health Care 3020 14th St., NW // unityhealthcare.org
Full-time
Food and Friends // 202-269-2277 (home delivery for those suffering from HIV, cancer, etc) 219 Riggs Rd., foodandfriends.orgNE
Employment Assistance Assitencia con Empleo
Full-time/Part-time
Martha’s Table // 202-328-6608 2375marthastable.orgElvansRoad SE
Samaritan Ministry 202-722-2280 // 1516 Hamilton St., NW 202-889-7702 // 1345 U St., SE samaritanministry.org
SERVICESCOMMUNITY
So Others Might Eat (SOME) // 202-797-8806 71 O St., NW some.org
Academy of Hope Public Charter School 202-269-6623 // 2315 18th Place NE aohdc.org
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