{"id":11200,"date":"2026-02-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=11200"},"modified":"2026-02-04T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:00:00","slug":"listen-many-tents-are-gone-but-washingtons-homeless-and-their-health-problems-arent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=11200","title":{"rendered":"Listen: Many Tents Are Gone, but Washington\u2019s Homeless \u2014 And Their Health Problems \u2014 Aren\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LISTEN: In this audio portrait of homeless people displaced by the Trump administration\u2019s crackdown on encampments in the nation\u2019s capital, KFF Health News senior correspondent Angela Hart tells of residents living outside this winter and their search for medical care and shelter.<\/p>\n<p>January\u2019s extreme cold has put a spotlight on the conditions homeless people face. They get sicker and die younger than housed people, often because health problems go untreated. The Trump administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/washington-dc-homelessness-crackdown-hiding-plain-sight-street-medicine\/\">removal of homeless tent encampments<\/a> in Washington, D.C., has made it more difficult for health workers to reach that vulnerable population this winter.<\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News senior correspondent Angela Hart takes WAMU \u201cHealth Hub\u201d listeners to Washington\u2019s streets to hear how homeless people are juggling their health and shelter after the Trump administration\u2019s crackdown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\">KFF Health News<\/a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF\u2014an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/\">KFF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>USE OUR CONTENT<\/h3>\n<p>This story can be republished for free (<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/homeless-crackdown-washington-dc-wamu-health-hub-winter-listen\/view\/republish\/\">details<\/a>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LISTEN: In this audio portrait of homeless people displaced by the Trump administration\u2019s crackdown on encampments in the nation\u2019s capital, KFF Health News senior correspondent Angela Hart tells of residents living outside this winter and their search for medical care and shelter. January\u2019s extreme cold has put a spotlight on the conditions homeless people face&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}