Outreach workers and government officials are worried those living outside may face disruptions as D.C. prepares for Freedom 250 celebrations.

The number of encampments and the number of people at each site have been dropping over the first half of 2026.

In 2022, Georgetown quietly paid a homeless outreach organization to work with the people in the encampment around its new downtown campus.

In addition to Alan’s Oasis, D.C. closed 14 encampments since early February.

A majority of the encampment closures were ultimately cancelled or rescheduled due to weather or residents moving before the clearing date.

The city has conducted repeated encampment closures at the MLK Library, a refuge for people experiencing homelessness downtown.

Between Oct. 7 and Oct. 29, D.C.’s Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services (DMHHS) cleared seven encampments across the city.

On July 16, the D.C. Library Board of Trustees voted to adopt a new Code of Conduct policy for its buildings.

Repeated encampment closures at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library displaced at least a dozen people in the last month and closed one of the last places people regularly sleep outside downtown. 

When the group of fluorescently dressed volunteers reached the edge of the biggest remaining encampment in Foggy Bottom, they paused….

D.C. closed nine encampments, did “full-clean ups” at six others, and postponed two scheduled closures due to bad weather between Aug. 27 and Oct. 8.

One of D.C.’s largest public libraries has begun enforcing rules against sleeping and lying down on library property.

Residents say a new proposal to build a nine-story lodging in Chinatown threatens to decimate an already dwindling community.

Frederic John writes a tribute to the now-closed Hotel Harrington, a longtime fixture in downtown Washington, D.C.

The National Park Service recently cleared an encampment at Scott Circle during a hypothermia alert. The agency plans to remove all encampments on federal land in D.C. by the end of 2023.

D.C. conducts over 70 encampment engagements every year. Do they achieve what they’re supposed to?

A small crowd of employees from WMATA and DC Circulator gathered in downtown D.C. on March 17 to demand equal pay and benefits for the city’s transit workers.

The DowntownDC Business Improvement District (BID) is reexamining parks and open spaces.

Julienne Kengnie writes a thank you to her clients and sends best wishes to everyone.

D.C. opened a renovated Franklin Park in September. An unhoused resident pushed out of a nearby encampment interrupted the ceremony & was quickly whisked away.