Skip to main content Currently Reading Two blocks from the Federal Reserve, a growing encampment of the homeless grips the economy's most powerful person Rachel Siegel, The Washington Post April 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 8 1of8An encampment of homeless people is situated blocks away from the Federal Reserve in Washington D.C. on April 14.Washington Post photo by Matt McClain.Show MoreShow Less 2of8One of the couples who live in the homeless encampment near the Federal Reserve, Malo Lotus, 19, and Isaiah Lotus, 21, talk and try to cover their tent to keep water out during a rainstorm.Washington Post photo by Matt McClain.Show MoreShow Less