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As Democrats rail against President Trump’s plan to federalize and clean up Washington, D.C. , a plan that includes addressing the homeless situation, a Fox News Digital review found the city’s response to the homeless problem has been fraught with issues in recent years.

Roughly 7 residents per 1,000 in the nation’s capital experience homelessness, according to numbers released in May by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, which is a rate 7 times higher than the regional rate of 1 per 1,000.

While homeless rates were down in D.C. from 2024 to 2025, data shows the issue is still worse than it was in 2021 after rising sharply in 2024, the largest year-over-year rise in a decade.

The homeless issue has

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