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288										<h1 class="font-size-45 mb-4 pt-4">Inside the internal turmoil between D.C. agencies, local police, and the National Security Council to clear homeless encampments</h1>
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302<p><em>This article was reported with support from SpotlightDC: Capital City Fund for Investigative Journalism.</em></p>
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306<p>On the afternoon of Aug. 14, 2025, D.C. police walked the streets surrounding the White House looking for encampments. Officers took notes of where homeless people slept and sat, emails Street Sense obtained via public records request show. After the team of at least three walked the streets of downtown D.C., they created a list of 25 tents, tarps, and benches.</p>
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310<p>At least 14 of those sites would be removed by local police in federally-driven encampment clearings the next day, <a href="https://streetsensemedia.org/article/were-just-trying-to-live-the-first-two-weeks-of-trumps-crackdown-on-visible-homelessness-in-d-c/" type="link" id="https://streetsensemedia.org/article/were-just-trying-to-live-the-first-two-weeks-of-trumps-crackdown-on-visible-homelessness-in-d-c/">displacing over a dozen people</a>. The week that followed — full of sweeps motivated by President Donald Trump’s hardline stance against visible homelessness — caused confusion and chaos among people experiencing homelessness in the District and changed the reality of living outside.</p>
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314<p>While it was immediately clear the closures in August of last year resulted from federal pressure, additional emails from that time obtained by Street Sense shed light on the weeks-long federal influence on D.C.’s homelessness policy, and how that week’s actions continue to echo a year after the takeover officially ended.</p>
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318<p>As jurisdictions across the country pass anti-camping legislation, the White House continues to push for “beautification” and criminalizing sleeping outside through executive orders and funding decisions. In the District, long-standing, multi-tent encampments have been eradicated as single-person encampment clearings have skyrocketed. As Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Wayne Turnage <a href="https://streetsensemedia.org/article/federal-encampment-closures-hearing/" type="link" id="https://streetsensemedia.org/article/federal-encampment-closures-hearing/">said during an oversight hearing earlier this year</a>, D.C. has shifted from maintaining encampments to closing them, with <a href="https://streetsensemedia.org/article/encampment-updates-d-c-is-on-track-to-close-twice-as-many-encampments-in-2026-than-in-2025/" type="link" id="https://streetsensemedia.org/article/encampment-updates-d-c-is-on-track-to-close-twice-as-many-encampments-in-2026-than-in-2025/">the District on track to close twice as many encampments</a> in 2026 as in 2025. The impact of the two-week crackdown on visible homelessness last summer lingers. And so do questions about what actually happened.</p><div class="text-center mb-4"><a href="https://streetsensemedia.networkforgood.com/projects/68459-primary-donation-form" class="btn btn-blue font-headline rounded-5 px-4 py-3 font-size-14">Street Sense has no online paywall to keep our articles accessible.<br/>If you enjoyed this one, donate to our journalism here.</a></div>
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326<p><br>Federal interest in homelessness in D.C. began months before the takeover. On March 28, 2025, Trump signed an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/making-the-district-of-columbia-safe-and-beautiful/" type="link" id="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/making-the-district-of-columbia-safe-and-beautiful/">executive order</a> creating the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force to increase police presence in public areas and maximize immigration enforcement. The order specifically mentioned removing all homelessness on federal land, creating anxiety among outreach teams and encampment communities.</p>
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330<p>Emails obtained by Street Sense shed light on the taskforce’s early interest in the District’s response to homelessness. </p>
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334<p>In a thread beginning on May 2, 2025, Orville Greene, <a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/president-trump-politics/internal-memo-detail
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338<p>“We look forward to helping you through any blockers to ensure the execution of President Trump’s Executive Order,” Greene ended his email.</p>
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342<p>On May 7, Talor Wasden, nee Allen, policy advisor for the National Security Council (NSC), responded. She listed the organizations that made up the group: the Federal Highway Administration, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the D.C. Department of Transportation, the Executive Office of the Mayor, the National Park Service (NPS), and the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).</p>
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346<p>Some of these agencies, including the NSC and MPD, would eventually collaborate on federally led encampment clearings in August 2025.</p>
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350<p>HUD Deputy Assistant Secretary Caitlyn McKenney replied to this thread with an attached proposal for an emergency shelter in D.C. for the group to discuss with the goal to “decrease unsheltered homelessness and increase public safety and access to public spaces.”</p>
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354<p class="has-text-align-left">Street Sense has not obtained further communications from the working group’s discussions. But three months later, on Aug. 10, Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115005075016157889" type="link" id="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115005075016157889">posted photos of tents</a> along I-66 on Truth Social. The next day, Trump declared “Liberation Day” during a press conference, officially invoking Section 740 of the D.C. Home Rule Act, allowing the president to take control of MPD during an emergency, and deploying the National Guard to the District.</p>
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362<p>Anxiety, chaos, and poor interagency communication ensued over the following days as D.C.’s Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services (DMHHS), which houses the city’s encampment team, cancelled scheduled encampment closures, turning instead to the tents photographed by Trump — setting a precedent of rapid-paced clearings with reduced notice and outreach.</p>
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366<p>Normally, the DMHHS encampment team partners with locally contracted outreach teams and the D.C. Department of Behavioral Services (DBH) to give encampment residents notice and offer shelter and storage for their belongings before clearings. While police are sometimes present at encampment closures, they are not led by law enforcement. At the time of the federal takeover, DMHHS’ protocol required the District give at least a week’s notice before scheduled engagements unless there were immediate health and safety concerns. All clearings also had to be justified by health and safety concerns until early 2025, when Turnage, who oversees DMHHS, said in an oversight hearing increased closures were “<a href="https://streetsensemedia.org/article/dc-homeless-encampment-closures-increase/" type="link" id="https://streetsensemedia.org/article/dc-homeless-encampment-closures-increase/">more consistent with the mayor’s goal that people don’t sleep outside.</a>”</p>
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370<p>NPS has the authority to respond to homelessness on federal lands, like parks and monuments, but, unlike DMHHS, it is not required to provide prior notice or connect residents with outreach services.</p>
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374<p>DMHHS began preparing for the possibility of a federal surge on Aug. 7, internal emails show. In one email, in response to a concern from a community member, Turnage wrote, “If Trump declares an emergency and brings in the National Guard to supplant law enforcement, whether the encampment is on federal or District land will not matter. This will be a difficult three or four days.”</p>
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378<p>Emails the evening of Aug. 13 between Greene, who was detailed to the NSC, Turnage, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice Lindsey Appiah, former D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith, Chief Inspector Donald Snider — who commands the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force for the U.S. Marshals Service and redacted parties from the U.S. Department of Justice established Turnage as the District’s point of contact for encampment removals that night. Turnage asked federal officials to give his team advance notice so they could marshal “necessary social support services.” This request would largely be ignored.</p>
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382<p>On the morning of Aug. 14, the District led a closure at the grassy field beside the Peace Institute — now named after the president — which Trump had posted photos of days earlier. It displaced at <a href="https://streetsensemedia.org/article/encampment-clearings-begin-after-trump-orders-federal-takeover-of-mpd/" type="link" id="https://streetsensemedia.org/article/encampment-clearings-begin-after-trump-orders-federal-takeover-of-mpd/">least eight residents</a>. Despite the heightened attention, the process generally followed <a href="https://dmhhs.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dmhhs/page_content/attachments/Protocol-Responding-Homeless-Encampments-Public-Space01.06.26.pdf" type="link" id="https://dmhhs.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dmhhs/page_content/attachments/Protocol-Responding-Homeless-Encampments-Public-Space01.06.26.pdf">D.C.’s encampment protocol</a>, which requires residents receive notice and be offered services; the normal groups of outreach workers, encampment team staff, biohazard engineers, and behavioral health workers just moved on a tighter schedule due to the federal pressure.</p>
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386<figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img decoding="async" width="1024" height="769" src="https://media.streetsensemedia.org/20260208045018/P1050707-1024x769.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-1180761" srcset="https://media.streetsensemedia.org/20260208045018/P1050707-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https://media.streetsensemedia.org/20260208045018/P1050707-300x225.jpg 300w, https://media.streetsensemedia.org/20260208045018/P1050707-768x577.jpg 768w, https://media.streetsensemedia.org/20260208045018/P1050707-1536x1153.jpg 1536w, https://media.streetsensemedia.org/20260208045018/P1050707-2048x1538.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Outreach workers amongst the tents photographed by President Donald Trump along I-66. Photo by Madi Koesler</figcaption></figure>
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390<p>Following the clearing, Turnage took questions from the press. He told reporters the District did n
390ot have control of a list of encampments federal forces wanted to close, but he had received notice closures could begin that evening. “We don’t control the list. If we got it, we certainly will be happy to share it, but we don’t have a list right now,” Turnage said.</p>
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394<p>Internal emails obtained by Street Sense show that around the same time Turnage fielded questions, MPD officers, then under federal control, were developing a list of encampments, all within a roughly 10-block radius of the White House. At least 14 sites on the list would be the target of MPD clearings that would break District protocol and send shockwaves of fear across the city in the following days, though outreach workers and residents confirmed several of the other sites were impacted during the federal takeover.</p>
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398<p>The officers, whose names were redacted, sent their notes, at least some of which were in Comic Sans font, to Commander Jason Bagshaw to compile into a finalized encampment list at 1:31 p.m. One of the canvassing officers specified in a follow-up email to Bagshaw that “All sites provided were encampments of either tents or tarps cover park benches.”</p>
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402<figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img decoding="async" width="1024" height="977" src="https://media.streetsensemedia.org/Screenshot-2026-09-08-at-11.36.18-AM-1024x977.png" alt="" class="wp-image-1183089" srcset="https://media.streetsensemedia.org/Screenshot-2026-09-08-at-11.36.18-AM-1024x977.png 1024w, https://media.streetsensemedia.org/Screenshot-2026-09-08-at-11.36.18-AM-300x286.png 300w, https://media.streetsensemedia.org/Screenshot-2026-09-08-at-11.36.18-AM-768x733.png 768w, https://media.streetsensemedia.org/Screenshot-2026-09-08-at-11.36.18-AM.png 1216w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">An earlier version of the list from the internal MPD emails written in Comic Sans font.</figcaption></figure>
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406<p>While DMHHS and the D.C. Department of Human Services (DHS) maintain encampment lists and information on people sleeping outside for outreach purposes, neither Street Sense nor outreach workers are aware of police previously leading an effort to identify encampments.</p>
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410<figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="721" height="1024" src="https://media.streetsensemedia.org/Screenshot-2026-09-09-at-3.31.41-PM-721x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-1183091" srcset="https://media.streetsensemedia.org/Screenshot-2026-09-09-at-3.31.41-PM-721x1024.png 721w, https://media.streetsensemedia.org/Screenshot-2026-09-09-at-3.31.41-PM-211x300.png 211w, https://media.streetsensemedia.org/Screenshot-2026-09-09-at-3.31.41-PM-768x1091.png 768w, https://media.streetsensemedia.org/Screenshot-2026-09-09-at-3.31.41-PM-1081x1536.png 1081w, https://media.streetsensemedia.org/Screenshot-2026-09-09-at-3.31.41-PM.png 1132w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 721px) 100vw, 721px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">The 25 site list sent by MPD&#8217;s Executive Assistant Chief of Specialized Operations Jeffery Carroll.</figcaption></figure>
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414<p>MPD’s then-Executive Assistant Chief of Specialized Operations Jeffery Carroll, now the interim chief, sent the finalized list in a separate chain between MPD officers, Turnage, Appiah, Smith, D.C. DHS Director Rachel Pierre, and encampment team members at 3:57 p.m., asking it not be shared outside the group.</p>
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418<p>That afternoon, DMHHS notices were placed at several of the tents near Washington Circle. The area was scheduled to be cleared at the end of August; the notices moved up the clearing to that upcoming Monday.</p>
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422<p>Closure notices became a point of contention between Washington Circle encampment resident Meghann Abraham and federal forces when officers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Secret Service, and Homeland Security arrived around 9 p.m. later that night to clear the site. Abraham responded by showing them the notice she’d received from the District, insisting she had until Monday to relocate. The large group of federal agents took photos of the notice and surrounding tents, then left. </p>
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426<figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="683" src="https://media.streetsensemedia.org/20260208045136/Screenshot-2025-08-15-at-12.52.31-AM-1024x683.png" alt="" class="wp-image-1180807" srcset="https://media.streetsensemedia.org/20260208045136/Screenshot-2025-08-15-at-12.52.31-AM-1024x683.png 1024w, https://media.streetsensemedia.org/20260208045136/Screenshot-2025-08-15-at-12.52.31-AM-300x200.png 300w, https://media.streetsensemedia.org/20260208045136/Screenshot-2025-08-15-at-12.52.31-AM-768x512.png 768w, https://media.streetsensemedia.org/20260208045136/Screenshot-2025-08-15-at-12.52.31-AM.png 1488w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">One of the sticker notices from DMHHS received by Washington Circle Park residents on Aug. 14, 2025. Photo by Madi Koesler</figcaption></figure>
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430As this standoff ensued, then-U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi issued the now-nicknamed “<a href="https://x.com/ChadGilmartinCA/status/1956162781679640832?s=20" type="link" id="https://x.com/ChadGilmartinCA/status/1956162781679640832?s=20">Bondi Order</a>” to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser that attempted to seize operational control of MPD. This essentially implemented Drug Enforcement Agency Administrator Terrence Cole as the “Emergency Police Commissioner,” or the police chief. It also directed officers to enforce laws and regulations around unlawful occupancy of public spaces “to the maximum extent permissible by law.”</p>
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434<p>Federal forces regrouped in the circle around 9:30 p.m. and did not leave the area until around midnight, though they did not attempt to clear the encampment. Outreach workers and local government officials, under the impression the District had prevailed, reassured residents they would have until Monday to pack, relocate, and move into shelter if they wanted.</p>
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438<p>The next morning, everything shifted when Andy Wassenich, director of policy for Miriam’s Kitchen, received a call around 10:30 a.m. from a friend who worked in a building overlooking the District’s Downtown Day Services Center, where people experiencing homelessness often spend time. An influx of MPD officers had just arrived outside the day center, which was also included on MPD’s list of sites.</p>
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442<p>Immediately, Wassenich messaged a Signal group chat with other homelessness outreach providers and mutual aid partners. As outreach teams scrambled to mobilize to other sites on the list, MPD officers and multiple Department of Public Works (DPW) crews arrived nine blocks away at Washington Circle around 10:40 a.m. Without any advance notice, DPW workers began filling trash trucks with the tents and belongings of residents, many of whom were not present, as at least 15 officers stood watch.</p>
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446<figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="683" src="https://media.streetsensemedia.org/20260208045200/MG_0092-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-1180821" srcset="https://media.streetsensemedia.org/20260208045200/MG_0092-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://media.streetsensemedia.org/20260208045200/MG_0092-300x200.jpg 300w, https://media.streetsensemedia.org/20260208045200/MG_0092-768x512.jpg 768w, https://media.streetsensemedia.org/20260208045200/MG_0092-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://media.streetsensemedia.org/20260208045200/MG_0092-2048x1365.jpg 2048w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">A D.C. Department of Public Works employee tosses belongings at Washington Circle Park on Aug. 15, 2025. Photo by Madi Koesler</figcaption></figure>
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450<p>While Abraham was on the phone with her dad, MPD officers approached her, telling her, “We’re clearing all this up today.” Her boyfriend, who she shared her tent with, was at work, and her neighbors were nowhere to be found. As trash trucks surrounded the circle and DPW workers began to drag tents full of belongings into the street to dispose of them, Abraham rushed to decide what she would be able to carry away with her just as outreach workers arrived at the scene.</p>
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454<p>MPD and DPW crews then moved west from Washington Circle to continue to clear tents near Godey Lime Kiln, sites also on the MPD encampments list, as outreach workers raced after them on foot to attempt to reach residents before police.</p>
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458<figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="683" src="https://media.streetsensemedia.org/20260208045210/MG_0134-1-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-1180823" srcset="https://media.streetsensemedia.org/20260208045210/MG_0134-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://media.streetsensemedia.org/20260208045210/MG_0134-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https://media.streetsensemedia.org/20260208045210/MG_0134-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://media.streetsensemedia.org/20260208045210/MG_0134-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://media.streetsensemedia.org/20260208045210/MG_0134-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Georgetown Ministry&#8217;s Outreach Coordinator Ben Zack helped the only resident present at 26 and L Street NW move his belongings as MPD arrived to the encampment. Photo by Madi Koesler</figcaption></figure>
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462<p>As MPD cars flashing their lights escorted trash trucks full of tents and furniture out of Washington Circle, it appeared the District’s encampment team had no idea. In an email sent by Turnage at 11:01 a.m. to various members of the team and other local agencies, he warned MPD might close Washington Circle before the District’s scheduled engagement three days later, despite his recommendation to them to wait.</p>
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466<p>“It was not clear to me from the conversation whether my advice will be heeded,” he wrote. “We are waiting to hear from federal officials and MPD regarding their plans for tonight and the weekend. By any metric, last night did n
466ot go well and they will regroup today.”</p>
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470<p>At this point, the Washington Circle encampment was already gone.</p>
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478<p>Meanwhile, the balance of power was shifting behind the scenes. Just after 5 p.m. that afternoon, outside of the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse, Bowser and D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb addressed the media, revealing Judge Ana Reyes had restored Smith’s position as MPD chief.</p>
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482<p>“We have made it very clear that we have laws in our city,” Schwalb told the crowd.</p>
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486<p>MPD declined to comment on questions related to the Bondi order and any directives regarding encampments issued by Cole, who Trump had placed in charge of MPD, between Aug. 14 and 15, 2025. To the knowledge of outreach workers and Street Sense, the only MPD-led clearings took place while Cole was in control of MPD. The D.C. Attorney General also did not respond to a request for comment.</p>
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490<p>While the ruling re-established local control of MPD, it did not stop federal influence, and the fight between local agencies and federal forces to control unsheltered homelessness in the District was just beginning.</p>
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494<p>In the week after the Washington Circle clearing, DMHHS, DHS, and DBH grappled with how to respond to federal requests for encampment clearings, internal emails show. </p>
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498<p>Late into the night on Aug. 16, Greene asked Turnage for his “urgent assistance” assigning a point of contact to assist “relocating the homeless encountered by law enforcement [in] the District tonight and tomorrow night.”</p>
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502<p>Turnage responded the next morning, appearing confused, asking about the federal clearings, and noting he was informed the “encampment phase of the operation [was] complete.” He again urged Greene to inform the District if encampment sweeps continued, so it could direct its outreach teams for assistance.</p>
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506<p>Multiple internal interagency meetings wrestled with how to respond to one-off encampment requests from MPD and the White House, the impacts of federal clearings, and how to adapt. An agenda Turnage sent to his administrative assistant on Aug. 20 for one of these meetings includes items such as: “Report on Latest Census For Homeless Encampments,” “Resources Required To Execute A More Expedited Encampment Clearing Process, Post Federal Surge” and “Changes Needed To Implement A More Appropriately Aggressive FD –12 Process.”</p>
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510<p>“I will use the information from this meeting to develop a communication to the [city administrator] with specific recommendations to expedite encampment closures following the surge, and to have a more efficacious FD-12 process,” Turnage added.</p>
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514<p>Over the first week of the takeover, emails from Turnage suggest a so-called “tour of duty” began with District staff on 24-hour standby for federal agencies to call about homelessness. An Aug. 20 email from a DMHHS staff member notes Bowser specifically asked for behavioral health and encampment teams “to be ready for deployment once a concern is flagged.”</p>
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518<p>Emails from Aug. 21 confirm at least one federal official, Greene, was still directly involved at this point. Turnage wrote to his team at 7:28 p.m., “But Orville [Greene] is saying ‘hold your people until I speak with [Jennifer Reed, director at Office of Budget and Performance Management]’” regarding sending home staff on-call for evening encampment engagements.</p>
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522<p>This email is the last documentation Street Sense obtained on federal involvement with closures. But outreach workers say federal pressure remains, continuing to cause displacement and disruption.</p>
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526<p>When asked specifically about collaboration with the White House, MPD, federal law enforcement, and the NSC on encampment clearings between Aug. 11, 2025 and Sept. 13, 2025, a DMHHS spokesperson stated, “There were no special collaborations initiated to report on behalf of DMHHS” and deferred to MPD and federal agencies “to speak to their process on encampment engagements.”</p>
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530<p>MPD, for its part, deferred to DMHHS and stated, “The MPD’s role in encampment removals is limited to maintaining peace during engagement events related to encampment protocols.” The White House did not respond to requests for comment.</p>
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534<p>On Aug. 19, then-Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a briefing <a href="https://youtu.be/ON-lo4pw7Ek?si=k70EAXJwXdQb4zuZ" type="link" id="https://youtu.be/ON-lo4pw7Ek?si=k70EAXJwXdQb4zuZ">48 encampments were cleared</a> by “multi-agency teams [and] MPD Patrol units.” Street Sense has never been able to independently confirm this number, and the White House has not provided lists of locations or dates despite multiple requests. In addition to the 25 sites on the list, many of which were cleared, there were three more federally mandated clearings and seven District-led clearings between Aug. 18 and Sept. 1, according to DMHHS. Combined with the closures near the Peace Institute and clearings mentioned in internal emails, this could account for up to 40 sites.</p>
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538<p>Additionally, since the announcement of the Safe and Beautiful Task Force, NPS has cleared 169 encampments on federal land, the agency wrote in a statement on Aug. 28, 2026. NPS declined to provide lists of sites impacted or dates to confirm if these sites were included in the number Leavitt mentioned and has not responded to Street Sense public re
538cords requests for the information.</p>
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546<p>Despite claims by Trump at a rally in August of this year in South Carolina that “The homeless are no longer there [in DC] in the tents that were all over the place,” hundreds of people are still living outside in the District and have only been forced to become more mobile.</p>
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550<p>Following the clearings, Abraham and her boyfriend moved to a secluded part of the woods roughly two hours by bus from Washington Circle. But after their tent burned down last winter, the two have found themselves sleeping outside MLK Library, where the couple met.</p>
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554<p>Since moving back to downtown, Abraham’s been able to reconnect with caseworkers but feels let down by the outreach system. She’s been waiting for a housing voucher for about two years and transitional housing for four months.</p>
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558<p>“They’re just making you go around in circles and there is no way out of it,” Abraham said.</p>
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562<p>Even with new enforcement of a <a href="https://streetsensemedia.org/article/mlk-library-stopping-people-from-sleeping-under-its-loggia-with-barricades-and-police/" type="link" id="https://streetsensemedia.org/article/mlk-library-stopping-people-from-sleeping-under-its-loggia-with-barricades-and-police/">sleeping ban at the library</a>, they plan to stay in the area because they count on the groups that come by with food, clothes, and toiletries. Abraham also relies on the internet access and library computers to complete her online college coursework at the University of Maryland Global Campus, where she is pursuing her bachelor’s in Homeland Security, supported by Pell Grants and student loans.</p>
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566<p>In the year since the clearing, Abraham’s only seen one of her old neighbors once, while eating in the Miriam’s Kitchen dining room. </p>
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570<p>She had him write down his number on a piece of paper because she shares a phone with her boyfriend, but on the walk home it started to rain. When she got back to her encampment and pulled out the number, the rain had smudged the writing. She hasn’t seen any of her old neighbors since.</p>
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574<p>“I don’t know where they went,” Abraham said. “It’s kinda stressful to have someone in your life for a year and then have no way to contact them. That’s what all this displacement is doing.”</p>
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578<figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="683" src="https://media.streetsensemedia.org/AR6A9813-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-1183090" srcset="https://media.streetsensemedia.org/AR6A9813-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://media.streetsensemedia.org/AR6A9813-300x200.jpg 300w, https://media.streetsensemedia.org/AR6A9813-768x512.jpg 768w, https://media.streetsensemedia.org/AR6A9813-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://media.streetsensemedia.org/AR6A9813-2048x1365.jpg 2048w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Meghann Abraham beside her belongings at MLK Library, 2026. Photo by Madi Koesler</figcaption></figure>
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582<p>Outreach teams echo this sentiment. Since several of the clearings last year did not work with District teams to provide outreach, caseworkers have lost contact with dozens of clients, cutting off crucial access to services.</p>
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586<p>When residents move between the three <a href="https://dhs.dc.gov/page/outreach-0" type="link" id="https://dhs.dc.gov/page/outreach-0">Street Outreach Network’s</a> provider zones, there is no communication between the District-contracted service providers. Providers can see outreach history in a shared database if residents reconnect. But this is not guaranteed.</p>
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590<p>Amid a <a href="https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/785672/homeless-encampment-clearings-increase-across-d-c-without-steady-roads-to-housing/" type="link" id="https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/785672/homeless-encampment-clearings-increase-across-d-c-without-steady-roads-to-housing/">voucher drought</a> that continues to delay residents’ transition off the streets, outreach workers are fearful of the continued communications disruptions and their lasting impact on people<br>living in encampments. Outreach workers emphasized that without proper communication, repeated clearings can create unnecessary trauma.</p>
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594<p>“Perhaps society has always felt this way, but to have it said so blankly and then to have the action be so clear, it is felt deeply by our guests,” Claire Wilson, executive director of Georgetown Ministries, said. “This past year, we’ve seen a lot more trauma, a lot more complexity in terms of behaviors. A lot of people are feeling very, very defeated.”</p>
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598<p>According to outreach workers and government employees, the encampments team is trying to adhere to normal protocol when possible, but federal pressure continues to make this difficult.</p>
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602<p>Prior to the federal takeover, outreach workers say there was more communication from DMHHS ahead of encampment closures. But now, on multiple occasions, outreach workers say they are not properly notified of scheduled engagements by the encampment team. Outreach workers have found out about scheduled engagements first from clients, after they received stickers marking their belongings for cleanup. DMHHS has also repeatedly cancelled interagency monthly meetings between DHS outreach partners and the encampments team, according to one of the outreach partners.</p>
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606<p>The District has cleared more encampments so far this year than in 2024 or 2025. The monthly average for clearings for those years sat between <a href="https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/785672/homeless-encampment-clearings-increase-across-d-c-without-steady-roads-to-housing/" type="link" id="https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/785672/homeless-encampment-clearings-increase-across-d-c-without-steady-roads-to-housing/">eight to nine per month</a>, but according to data from DMHHS, the monthly average so far this year is closer to 17 clearings.</p>
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610<p>Clearings this year also look different. Outreach workers and legal advocates have noticed increases in clearings of single-person, mobile set-ups that would be less likely to draw attention in the past. This is especially true of Ward 2, which includes most of downtown, where there’s a high 
610number of federal forces. If tents do pop up, they are almost immediately tagged for removal, outreach workers said. There are no longer visible, long-standing, multi-tent encampments in D.C. as a result of these efforts, but people remain outside.</p>
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614<p>DMHHS denies any of its policies have changed. A spokesperson repeated many times in a statement to Street Sense that “The posture of the DMHHS Encampment Response Team has remained consistent as it relates to supporting service engagements and connection efforts for vulnerable residents residing in encampments, while continuing to address all health and safety concerns or intrusions connected to encampments on public space.”</p>
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618<p>Outreach workers, advocates, and people living outside continue to argue against displacement. Instead, they’re urging the federal and local government to shift focus and funding from increasing clearings to housing vouchers and wrap-around services that focus more on residents’ well-being than erasing visible homelessness.</p>
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622<p>“If you really don’t want to look at us, you really need to provide services — give us actual options that are viable,” Abraham said. “A lot of us are down and out of it. We need a hand up. Give us the hand up.”</p>
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630<p><em>Franziska Wild and Annemarie Cuccia contributed reporting for this article.</em></p>
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