News & Updates
HART From the Front Lines
Meet Abby Maraya! Abby is participating in a year-long fellowship with Everyone Home DC through Service Never Sleeps and, as a part of her fellowship, she is volunteering with our Homeless Assistance Response Team (HART). Below is a reflection piece that Abby wrote after her first deployment. Hello! I am Abby, your Service Never Sleeps […]
Reserve Your Table Today! We are Lavagna’s June Charity of the Month.
Everyone Home DC is thrilled to be the beneficiary of Lavagna’s Charity “Dine Out” Program this June! Every Wednesday, throughout the Month of June, Lavagna will donate 10% of its proceeds to Everyone Home DC to support our vision of a District of Columbia that is a thriving and diverse community where all people can […]
Volunteer Spotlight: Tobie Smith
Quote: “It gives us volunteers a chance to break down barriers to communicate with community members we may not normally interact with, breaking down biases and understanding that everyone rightly deserves to enjoy all that our wonderful Capitol Hill community offers.” Dr. Tobie Smith is one of our longest serving and most active volunteers with […]
Breaking down Government Funded Housing Interventions
The goal of Everyone Home DC’s Street Outreach team is to connect people experiencing homelessness to housing. In order to do this, we rely on government funded housing interventions like Permanent Supportive Housing, Rapid Rehousing, and Targeted Affordable Housing. Permanent Supportive Housing is the most intensive housing intervention and is designed to support individuals who […]
An End In Sight for DC General Family Shelter
This week, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that the city will be closing the DC General Family Shelter by the end of 2018. This is earlier than expected as the previous iteration of the plan would have kept the shelter open until 2020 when all of the new Short-term Transitional Housing facilities would be operational. (Three […]
