By Lilah Burke (Street Sense Media) • October 14, 2019
Since 2015, the number of families experiencing homelessness in the care of the DC Department of Human Services has dropped by 40%. Behind the change is a program that attempts to match families at risk of entering homeless shelters with relatives or friends who may be able to take them in, even if it means sleeping on couches.
By Jane Green (Development Director) • October 14, 2019
On Thursday, November 7, we look forward to meeting new members, long-time supporters, contributors, and volunteers at our Fall Neighborhood Mixer. Please join us at Sudhouse DC from 6-9 pm to talk all things greater Washington.
Hello GGWash readers! My name is Kate, and I am thrilled to be joining the GGWash team as the new Program and Community Coordinator. If that title doesn’t tell you much, you are not alone. My role will be evolving as GGWash’s needs change.
The moderate drought conditions in the area have led to the loss of younger trees along the mall, and irrigation has been needed to keep the mall’s lawn green. Happily, rain is expected Wednesday morning. (Dick Uliano / WTOP)
Julio Vargas Valerio, 67, of Takoma Park, died after the drivers of two vehicles hit him at 7:40 p.m. Sunday night on of University Boulevard near Seek Lane in Silver Spring, according to Montgomery County police. (Dan Schere / Bethesda Beat)
In part due to the dry weather affecting the Washington region, the District Department of Transportation announced it paved upwards of 90 miles of roadway this year, with more planned as part of a district-wide goal to improve road conditions by 2024. (Kristi King / WTOP)
Since the DC Council approved emergency legislation last week to rename Columbus Day Indigenous Peoples’ Day, more attention locally may be given to the history of the Piscataway people, who lived along the Potomac River from the Chesapeake Bay to western Maryland. (Dick Uliano / WTOP)
An Arlington resident has been selling orange pedestrian flags online that have appeared at intersections in Arlington, Falls Church, and Alexandria since 2017 and have been purchased by Arlington Public Schools and community groups. (Eliza Berkon / Arlington Magazine)
STABLE, a 10,000-square-foot brick building that was once a stable for a Nabisco factory in Eckington, is now a nonprofit hub for artists that includes 21 studios for 24 artists, a shared workspace for eight more, a lounge and a 1,100-square-foot gallery space. (Tara Bahrampour / Post)
Melanie Adams, the recently appointed director of the Smithsonian’s reopened Anacostia Community Museum, wants the museum to include those who have been ignored: “There are great women, great children, great people of color, and all of these people have been absent in the narrative—whether it’s in art, whether it’s in history, whether it’s in science.” (Joshua Kaplan / City Paper)
The Helsinki Bus Station Theory, an idea about perseverance first proposed by Finnish-American photographer Arno Minkkinen in 2004, is something to muse about locally while riding Metro bus down 16th Street. (Oliver Burkeman / The Guardian)
Although the Washington region’s median home price set a record for September and inventory remained at historically low levels, sales volume climbed 15% over last September, reaching $2.1 billion with 98.4 percent of homes being sold at list price. (Tom Acitelli / Curbed)
