D.C. is taking a survey of its unhoused population on Thursday night, in what officials are calling an unsheltered census count.

It's being conducted to get an idea of how many people are living in tents and on the streets, following recent efforts to clear encampments and President Donald Trump's threats to send unhoused people far away from the city.

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Multiple encampments have been cleared in recent weeks under Trump's order to clean up the city.

District outreach workers will be counting the number of tents, the number of people in those tents, and how many people are unhoused and living unsheltered on the streets.

"The purpose of the count is to make sure we know exactly who is experiencing homelessness, so we can

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