Comments on: DC Winter Plan for Homeless Families a Big Question Mark

By: DC Mayor Slips Harmful Homeless Policy Changes Into Budget Bill | Poverty & Policy

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:00:59 +0000

[...] insisted that it would have enough units there this winter — perhaps more than enough — because [...]

By: More and Less Money for Affordable Housing in DC « Poverty & Policy

More and Less Money for Affordable Housing in DC « Poverty & Policy — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:09:50 +0000

[...] ends, families with no place to stay will again be on their own, unless some of the units DHS originally planned to use this winter are [...]

By: Kathryn Baer

Kathryn Baer — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:21:06 +0000

I’m not clear on what you’re asking. Do you want to know if a family that’s been expelled from the shelter can get readmitted? Or does your question have to do with termination from the short-term housing program?

By: lashawntay

lashawntay — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:10:13 +0000

Is someone get terminated from the program is there away to get back in?

By: Homelessness, Child Poverty Not Emergencies, DC Mayor and Council Decide « Poverty & Policy

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:01:59 +0000

[...] Shouldn’t they, at the very least, have wanted to make sure that the emergency shelter and other services triggered by Hurricane Sandy didn’t leave the Department of Human Services even shorter on funds than it’s likely to be? [...]

By: DC Mayor Plans to Bank Fund Surplus, Leave Poor Families in Crisis « Poverty & Policy

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:04:21 +0000

[...] account more than the projected $7 million shortfall — especially because we’ve got good reasons to believe that DHS won’t be able to carry out its plan for housing homeless families this [...]

By: DC Bars Shelter Doors to Families With No Safe Place to Stay « Poverty & Policy

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:01:50 +0000

[...] I earlier wrote, the plan calls for leaving 118 units at DC General vacant unless and until DHS would otherwise [...]

By: DC Winter Plan Meeting Exposes Affordable Housing Problems « Poverty & Policy

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:10:22 +0000

[...] with the short-shot homelessness prevention and temporary housing solutions the department still claims will significantly reduce pressures on DC General — the main [...]

By: Kathryn Baer

Kathryn Baer — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:23:51 +0000

Fortunately, Diane, the District has some very strong and well-informed advocates. The Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless will be all over this issue, as they have been in the past. The DC Fiscal Policy Institute is following it too.

One way or the other, the District will almost certainly meet its legal obligations to families this winter. The real concern is what happens when the season ends.

By: dnilan

dnilan — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:09:49 +0000

Sounds like a train wreck in the making. But who cares about these families anyhow? Obviously they’re not on the DC priority list. And who, besides you, Kathryn, will be calling attention to this? I do agree with Sylvia’s point — these systems are often dysfunctional (to say the least) — but absent seismic change, we need something in place…before winter. NOW!