N Street Village supports women experiencing homelessness in Washington, D.C. 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, laundry, and toiletries
We offer a broad spectrum of services to help each woman reach her housing, health, income, employment, and recovery goals
We provide housing for 851 women and 6 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; 17% were living with friends/family.
have some post-secondary education.
have experienced domestic violence.
have a mental illness, addiction, or both.
are living with HIV/AIDS.
entered with no income; 47% had income less than the Federal Poverty line.
have experienced chronic homelessness.
are over the age of 50.
identify as African-American; 16% are White.
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Deandra Smith had been in and out of jail too many times before she finally said, “I’m ready to change my life.”
“I just liked to fight, like a sport,” she says. “I didn’t know where it came from, and then it took somebody from N Street to really sit me down and talk.”
Read Full StoryI love people. I’ve learned it and understand life. Sometimes you just got to pour into people because they don’t have nobody.
Read Full StoryYou had love all around you. You had people who didn’t want to break you down but wanted to build you up, make you want something different in life. That’s what N Street is about, for real.
Read Full StorySlide or swipe images to the left to view N Street Village’s history over the past 50-plus 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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