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N Street Village supports women in Washington, D.C. experiencing homelessness by offering a broad spectrum of services, housing, and advocacy in an atmosphere of dignity and respect. We partner with women to achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery goals.
We provide essentials like a hot meal, shower, clean clothes, and laundry
We offer a broad spectrum of services to help each woman reach her housing, health, income, employment, and recovery goals
We provide housing for 842 women and 57 families, and our work is to ensure every woman has a place to call her own
We support each woman in her journey of transformation by providing the tools and resources she needs to reach ongoing goals
We rely on the voice of lived experience to guide our mission
were living outdoors before arriving
have a high school degree or higher
have experienced domestic violence
have a mental illness, addiction, or both
are living with HIV/AIDS
entered with income less than the Federal Poverty Line
entered with no income
have experienced chronic homelessness
are over the age of 50
identify as African-American
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Learn more stories of healing, hope, and transformation from Village clients:
For as long as I can remember, alcohol has been in my life. Even as a baby, my family would put beer in my bottle to keep me quiet. Unaware of the impact alcohol would have on the rest of my life, I felt I had a pretty normal childhood surrounded by family.
Read Full StoryFrom a young age, I witnessed the devastating effects of addiction. Because my mother suffered from alcoholism, I lived with my father until he passed away when I was just 13. While grieving the loss of my father, I moved back in with my mother and an abusive stepfather. I used any opportunity to avoid being at home, which led me down a difficult path.
Read Full StoryI had to grow up quickly. My mother had me at 16, and I was raised mostly by my grandparents. My father was in and out of prison during much of my childhood and was murdered when I was just 12 years old.
Making my childhood even more challenging, my mother exposed me to an adult lifestyle at a very young age. As a result, my life evolved into a fast track of drugs, alcohol, and men.
Read Full StorySlide or swipe images to the left to view N Street Village’s history over the past 50 years.
Ensure homelessness for women in D.C. is rare, brief, and nonrecurring.
Our goal is to ensure every woman in Washington, D.C. has a safe place to call home. To achieve this, the Village is proud to partner with our Mayor Muriel Bowser in city-wide efforts to “make homelessness rare, brief and non-recurring.”
Through partnership across sectors, we believe we can achieve this vision and help build a community of hope and healing for each woman in need. Recognizing the collective impact of what we can accomplish together, N Street Village provides guidance, leadership, and advocacy to our partners as they make decisions around homelessness and housing across the District.
Learn more about these partnerships and our advocacy efforts here.
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