Faced with criticism, D.C. officials say the program is working as intended, and that 34 of the 45 residents of two NoMa encampments were either placed in housing or about to be.

Two longstanding homeless encampments in NoMa will be shut down by D.C. on Oct. 4, though city officials are working to get as many residents as possible housed first.

While U.S. Park Police said it has “no imminent plans” to remove the encampment near the Washington Convention Center, long-term housing issues and community tensions remain.

The Bowser administration cleared an encampment underneath the Whitehurst Freeway on Monday; it has already returned.

Occupy D.C. returned to McPherson Square! And by returned we mean that they pitched three tents and didn’t sleep in them.

Compared to the clearing out of McPherson Square on Saturday, the enforcement of no-camping rules by the National Park Service in Freedom Plaza on Sunday was a slow burn.

Eight people from Occupy D.C. were arrested and scores of tents removed as U.S. Park Police spent the day enforcing the ban on camping in McPherson Square in what was by far the largest show of force yet agains the four-month-old protest.

Over the weekend, Occupy D.C. endured what might be considered a major test for the open-air political encampment—constant freezing or near-freezing temperatures along with the winter’s first accumulative snowfall.

It wouldn’t be a big protest day without a ridiculous story or two, now would it? Cindy Sheehan, in town for today’s ANSWER protest, apparently ran into some trouble with the National Park Service regarding one of her “tent cities” earlier this week. The AP reports that Sheehan was “forced to take down tents set up Monday on the lawn of the Washington Monument.” In response to this ridiculous display of power, she will set…