(14 Aug 2025)
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Washington — 14 August 2025
1. Track loader removing items from wooded area
2. Wide of area almost cleared out
3. Person loading up items into wagon
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Wayne Turnage, Deputy Mayor for the District of Columbia Health and Human Services:
"From what I can tell it went very well."
5. Track loader removing items from wooded area
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Wayne Turnage, Deputy Mayor for the District of Columbia Health and Human Services:
"We felt that this we knew this site would be a one of the key sites that the federal government would close. So it was in our judgment that it was better for us to do it using the protocols that we rely upon in the deputy mayor’s office."
7. Track loader removing items from wooded area
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Wayne Turnage, Deputy Mayor for the District of Columbia Health and Human Services:
"We are working with federal government closely. They are not expecting us to, after they indicate that they’re going to close the site, to jump in front of them and close the sites ourselves. We work with them. We had a big meeting at the US Park Service headquarters last night. There’s another one today at 5 PM. And from that meeting, we will learn more about which sites they’re gonna close, starting at 6 PM tonight."
9. Tight of items in wooded area
10. Track loader removing items from wooded area
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Wayne Turnage, Deputy Mayor for the District of Columbia Health and Human Services:
"We think there are about 62 encampments, federal and district included. And anywhere from the numbers I saw this week were from anywhere from 97 to 106 people living in those encampments."
12. Various of people holding signs while area was cleared
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Rachel Pierre, acting director of the DC Department of Human Services:
"So what we’ve been doing is to make sure that we have enough shelter beds to meet the demand. So we have enough shelter beds, and we can expand on demand to make sure that anyone who wants a shelter bed can come in."
14. Tight of items on encampment
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Wayne Turnage, Deputy Mayor for the District of Columbia Health and Human Services:
"I would say, you know, we are aware of the fact that this problem will not be permanently solved until you find places for people to live that they are comfortable and they can afford. When people come back, then we will address that situation the same way we did before they left, and that is try to connect them to the range of homeless services that we have."
16. Pan of area almost cleared out
STORYLINE:
Some of the District of Columbia’s homeless residents are packing their belongings before an expected sweep to clear out remaining encampments around the nation’s capital.
The District of Columbia Health and Human Services helped some people at one emcampment, ahead of the crack down.
"We felt that this we knew this site would be a one of the key sites that the federal government would close," said Wayne Turnage, Deputy Mayor for the District of Columbia Health and Human Services.
"So it was in our judgment that it was better for us to do it using the protocols that we rely upon in the deputy mayor’s office."
Rachel Pierre, acting director of the DC Department of Human Services, said they have enough beds to meet demand should any of the homeless who are being forced to move want to take advantage.
"So we have enough shelter beds, and we can expand on demand to make sure that anyone who wants a shelter bed can come in," he said.
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