Giraud

French hopes rest with world number nine and 2022 world champion Aurelien Giraud.

Vincent Giraud, one of the artist’s Parisian fans, is already an avid player.

Quickly hooked, Giraud has in just a year already tracked down 1,565 of them, accumulating so many points that he has rocketed into the leaderboard’s top 1,000, out of more than 360,000 players.

“In a few months I found and flashed all those in Paris,” says Giraud, game-name Vince-Vader.

As Jean-Michel Giraud, president and CEO of Friendship Place, put it in an email to me: “To effectively address homelessness in the D.C. area — and the nation — we have to start seeing people who are experiencing homelessness as our neighbors and honor their humanity.”