Last week, federal law enforcement began clearing out homeless encampments throughout the nation’s capital. Now, one local organization that advocates for homeless people is saying this strategy has been seen in the past and will not help bring an end to people living on the streets of D.C.

“If clearing homeless encampments and making it a crime to be homeless worked, we would have solved homelessness, but it doesn’t work,” said Jesse Rabinowitz, with the D.C.-based National Homelessness Law Center .

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