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First family visits D.C. shelter, highlights homeless veterans’ plight
By Juliet Eilperin November 25, 2015 President Obama, joined by his wife and daughters, served Thanksgiving dinner in a D.C. shelter Wednesday to highlight the administration’s efforts to end homelessness…
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Concrete Details: La Casa in Columbia Heights Is a Rare Aesthetic and Policy Success
AMANDA KOLSON HURLEY OCT 15, 2015 5 PM The best building that’s gone up in the District in recent months isn’t a swish law office or a deluxe condo tower—although…
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Friendship Place Receives $50,000 Grant from Open Society of George Soros Foundation
Washington, DC – Friendship Place was recently granted $50,000 from the George Soros Open Society Foundation. The Open Society Foundations’ Washington DC Community Grants Initiative was founded in 2005 to…
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Housing Facility Raises Bar for City Homeless Services
by ERIC FALQUERO // News // December 18, 2014 Half a block from the Columbia Heights metro station, across from IHOP, Best Buy, and other restaurants and retail establishments, sits the District’s first…
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Housing Facility Raises Bar for City Homeless Services
by ERIC FALQUERO // News // December 18, 2014 Half a block from the Columbia Heights metro station, across from IHOP, Best Buy, and other restaurants and retail establishments, sits the District’s first…
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Friendship Place Walks to End Homelessness
Washington, DC – On November 2, 2014, Friendship Place will be hosting its first annual Friendship Walks: A Walk to End Homelessness at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Friendship…
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