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    Low Barrier Shelters Dashboard

    Metadata Updated: November 21, 2025

    Emergency shelter is available for adults who are experiencing homelessness. The Emergency Shelter program provides beds on a first-come, first-served basis, to anyone who does not have a safe place to sleep. Shelters provide a warm and safe place to sleep as well as on-site assessment and case management. Programs offer various onsite services for those accessing shelter.Low barrier shelters are operated by non-profit organizations under contract with the Department of Human Services. Shelter capacity is expanded during the winter months for residents who are at risk of hypothermia.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date November 21, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DC data

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date November 21, 2025
    Publisher Department of Human Services
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=e73958610cd741979f5dd2faa149b50d
    Data First Published 2024-01-29T20:00:49.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2025-11-13T10:36:06.000Z
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 3976cd0f-00f3-4303-ac15-548daf7ad07c
    Harvest Source Id b05f955a-65d6-4288-9558-15a5ebc74e36
    Harvest Source Title DC data
    Homepage URL https://opendata.dc.gov/apps/DCGIS::low-barrier-shelters-dashboard
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -77.1759,38.7870,-76.8933,39.0010
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 721b40962ed7b670dea812b5f6c0a308a40ff9b3f659d7c1ec6e4b5283852be7
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -77.1759, 38.7870, -77.1759, 39.0010, -76.8933, 39.0010, -76.8933, 38.7870, -77.1759, 38.7870}

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