About 70 homeless encampments in the nation’s capital have been taken down in recent months, but those efforts intensified this week after President Donald Trump deployed members of the National Guard to address what he said was a city “overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs and homeless people.”

On Thursday, a homeless encampment near the Kennedy Center — for which Trump serves as chairman — was dismantled by city workers who shoved people’s belongings into garbage trucks.

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The president’s move comes as crime and homelessness are both reported at or near decade lows in D.C. So how dire is the city’s homeless situation? Here is a breakdown of some

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