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Nov 20, 2024 | 
streetsensemedia.org | Carolina Bomeny
For the last few years, D.C.’s homeless services system has given Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) vouchers to dozens of people each month, helping them move out of shelters and off the street into apartments. But this winter, as the fiscal year 2025 budget cuts kick in, only 10 to 11 individuals experiencing homelessness will be matched with a voucher each month — the result of the lowest funding for PSH since the District passed its first strategic plan to end homelessness in 2015.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
streetsensemedia.org | Carolina Bomeny
Nothing seemed to be off-limits at the eight-hour D.C. Council Housing Committee Oversight Roundtable on Oct. 22. The D.C. Housing Authority (DCHA) faced intense scrutiny and a glimpse of praise from residents, advocates, and community leaders on its reform efforts.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
streetsensemedia.org | Carolina Bomeny
Only 97 families leaving Rapid Rehousing (RRH) have been approved for permanent housing assistance, D.C. Housing Authority (DCHA) Housing Choice Voucher Program Director Anton Shaw said during an Oct. 9 DCHA board meeting. While over 2,200 families are being removed from the RRH program this year, only 489 families have applied for the available vouchers, according to Shaw.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
streetsensemedia.org | Carolina Bomeny
The end of pandemic-era benefits, which provided nearly $30,000 on average to many low-income D.C. families from 2020 to 2022, has left some facing food and housing insecurity. According to a new report from the United Planning Organization (UPO), many families are now struggling to meet rent and other expenses after a period of relative stability.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
streetsensemedia.org | Carolina Bomeny
Only 97 families leaving Rapid Rehousing (RRH) have been approved for permanent housing assistance, D.C. Housing Authority (DCHA) Housing Choice Voucher Program Director Anton Shaw said during an Oct. 9 DCHA board meeting. While over 2,200 families are being removed from the RRH program this year, only 489 families have applied for the available vouchers, according to Shaw.
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May 3, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Margaret Hartigan |Eddy Binford-Ross |Sydney Carroll |Carolina Bomeny
For more than a week, hundreds of D.C. college students and community members have gathered at George Washington University’s (GW) Gaza solidarity encampment, drawing attention from the district, national media, and congressional Republicans. Early in the morning of April 25, dozens of students from GW, as well as Georgetown and American University (AU), flooded into University Yard (U-Yard), a main green on GW’s campus, where they began setting up two dozen tents.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Carolina Bomeny |Caitriona Pagni |Annemarie Cuccia |Lilah Burke
What does it mean to receive an education from Georgetown, not despite but given the school’s history? A new one-credit seminar titled Race, Power, and Justice at Georgetown tries to help students answer this question. A 50-student pilot program of the course concluded on the week of Feb. 20, and the Fall 2024 semester will be the first time the class is required for all new students as part of the new Pathways to Social Justice (PtoSJ) requirement.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Carolina Bomeny |Franzi Wild |Natalie Chaudhuri |Ashley Kulberg
Around a dozen students gathered for a vigil in Red Square on Wednesday, Jan. 24, in remembrance of the victims and survivors of gun violence. The event was led by Georgetown Students Demand Action’s (SDA) in honor of the sixth annual National Gun Violence Survivors Week (Jan. 22-26). “As over 120 Americans are shot and killed each day (38,000 in a year) it would take almost eleven hours to say all of their names.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Eddy Binford-Ross |Carolina Bomeny |Aashna Nadarajah
One of the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, Alicia Garza, spoke to Georgetown students on Nov. 2 in an event titled “The Frontiers of Community Organizing.” Garza discussed victories in the fight for racial justice following the beginning of the BLM movement, the importance of hope, and how to remain joyful going forward.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Carolina Bomeny |Joanna Li |Franzi Wild |Meriam Ahmad
Three professors in the Arabic department are on leave this semester after current and former students made allegations of racial and religious discrimination and harassment in the classroom. The Voice spoke with four students who said they were treated unfairly by the professors because they were Arab, Muslim, or Black.
