Washington, D.C., is one of only six places in the United States where homelessness has fallen since 2019.

Alongside its neighbor, Maryland, as well as Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Mississippi, and Wyoming, the District posted reductions while most of the nation saw increases. Since 2015, homelessness in D.C. has dropped more than 20%, compared to a nearly 40% jump nationwide.

Yet the Trump administration has singled out the city for a militarized crackdown, sending the National Guard into the streets and ordering homeless encampments to be dismantled.

The move follows President Donald Trump’s inflammatory claims that the city is “overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs and homeless people,” even as both crime and ho

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