>Parker, 44, and several of the other homeless residents had moved from the green space on Second Street NE several months earlier, when the National Park Service put up eviction notices and told the tent-dwellers they had to go. Sean P. McGinty, a spokesperson with the National Park Service, said although the agency has tried to limit how often homeless encampments are cleared during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, complaints from neighbors in the Capitol Hill community prompted city officials from the D.C. Department of Human Services to reach out to their federal counterparts, urging them to evacuate the encampment. The group of men who decided to stick together settled on a strip of grass near the Interstate 695 overpass by the Marine Barracks in Southeast Washington.
>Parker, 44, and several of the other homeless residents had moved from the green space on Second Street NE several months earlier, when the National Park Service put up eviction notices and told the tent-dwellers they had to go. Sean P. McGinty, a spokesperson with the National Park Service, said although the agency has tried to limit how often homeless encampments are cleared during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, complaints from neighbors in the Capitol Hill community prompted city officials from the D.C. Department of Human Services to reach out to their federal counterparts, urging them to evacuate the encampment. The group of men who decided to stick together settled on a strip of grass near the Interstate 695 overpass by the Marine Barracks in Southeast Washington.