D.C.’s homeless may get moved, but the problem isn’t going away

Clearing encampments takes the homeless out of sight but not out of mind or off the city’s hands. As the DC Fiscal Policy Institute has noted, the District has one of the highest rates of homelessness in the country. You might not know that, given the lack of full attention homelessness gets in the mayor’s and the D.C. Council’s deliberations or until displacement moves the problem into your sight. But unhoused people haven’t gone anywhere. Nor have their problems.