Tourists shocked! DC homeless encampments "exploding"

Washington DC has been looking more and more like other Democrat-run cities across the country, as abject squalor spreads throughout the nation’s capital.

Over the past two years, the number of homeless encampments has grown to an estimated 120, following pandmic-era decisions by both the city and federal governments to pause enforcement actions – making it an easy choice for itinerants to set up shop, the NY Post reports.

A tour by The Post of the district’s major tourist areas this week found at least 35 vagrants in residence at a National Park Service site two blocks from the White House; more than 20 in the green spaces surrounding the State Department complex; and five across the street from the infamous Watergate Hotel.

And these sites accounted for less than 5 percent of the estimated 120 tent cities in Washington D.C. -NY Post

“It’s wicked and it’s medieval,” said 59-year-old Robert Westover, a longtime DC resident. “We’re really letting people suffer on the street like animals? Somehow that’s progressive?”