DC Sans-Abri rate 7 times higher than the regional average despite the budget

While the Democrats reveal themselves against President Trump’s plan to federalize and clean Washington, DC, a plan that includes the resolution of the homeless situation, a digital journal of Fox News revealed that the city’s response to the problem of homeless has been fraught with problems in recent years.

About 7 residents per 1,000 in the national capital experience homelessness, depending on the number 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 the rates of homeless were down to DC from 2024 to 2025, the data show that the problem is even worse than it was in 2021 after increasing sharply in 2024, the highest increase from one year to the other in a decade.

The problem of homeless has also affected young people more and more, because the data show a 13% increase in young people at the age with single transition knowing the homeless at DC, a total of around 367 individuals in 2025.

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President Donald Trump was criticized for sending federal resources to Washington, DC, to combat crime and homelessness. (Getty Images)

While homelessness continues to be a problem with DC and the available bed space is a bonus, the last budget of the city contains several expenses of expenses which approach the articles of the order of the left rather than housing the homeless.

Washington, DC, allocated $ 17 million dollars in addition to taxpayers, a total of $ 40 million, to treat illegal immigrants “Humanally” than to renovate the homeless shelters from the Ministry of Health Services in the City System, a total of $ 23 million, according to the FY 2025 budget.

The district budget is also full of progressive expenditure, in particular $ 92 million reversing the financing of the law on the modification of commitments on DC climate actions, $ 524 to support the accommodation of world pride in 2025 and $ 1 million for the construction of an LGBTQ + community center in the Shaw district.

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President Donald Trump listens to a question of a journalist on August 11, 2025. (AP / Mark Schiefelbein)

In addition, the budget includes millions of long -term expenses for the Medical Cannabis Social Equity Fund, more than a million dollars to establish a repair working group and $ 250,000 for a Black LGBTQIA + History program.

City leaders were criticized last year non -profit groups, Washington City Paper reportedTo require budget cuts to various homeless services, citing “spending pressures”.

The city has also struggled to provide enough beds for the homeless and the data show that the number of beds available has dropped since 2021.

After Trump announced that he was sending federal resources to DC to combat crime, his interior department said he was adopting a Non-Tolerance policy For homeless camps to support the “embellishment” efforts of the Trump administration in Washington, DC

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said last week that those who live in homeless camps will have to either accept treatment in a shelter for homeless, or go to prison if they refuse. American Park police have already withdrawn 70 homeless camps from DC, with only a few remaining, added Leavitt.

Democrats were strongly opposed to Trump’s attempt to clean Washington, DC and demonstrators have streets In recent days to express the opposition to the president.

Fox News Digital spoke with several homeless people in the streets of Washington, DC, last week, some of which expressed their concerns and others support changes.

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A homeless camp outside the Presbyterian church on avenue New York in Washington, DC, August 11, 2025. (Reuters / Ken Cedeno)

A homeless, who identified himself as Kenny and lives near Dupont Circle, told Fox News Digital that Trump was right to solve problems at DC after the city government “failed a lot”.

Another man, who did not give his name but who also lives by Dupont, took a very different tone.

“”It’s horrible, what is the devil, where does authority get? Do you know what I mean? “He said.

“We are also people,” he said. “It is not because I am homeless that I have to leave; we have the right to be here too.”

Fox News Digital contacted the DC Department of Human Services and the mayor’s office Muriel Bowser to comment.

Peter Pinedo by Fox News Digital contributed to this report