President Trump’s Executive Order Is an Attack on Americans Experiencing Homelessness

Trump’s new order won’t solve homelessness — It will make it worse

On July 24, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that directs federal agencies to assist jurisdictions that criminalize people experiencing homelessness. The order rewards cities, counties and states that act to enforce bans on camping, squatting, public drug use and loitering; further, it encourages the growth of involuntary treatment programs for mental illness and addiction. In short, this is not a homelessness plan; it is a punis…

Comment: Investment, not posturing, will resolve homelessness

HeraldNet.com HeraldNet.com - Everett and Snohomish County news from The Daily Herald in Everett, Washington Trump’s mandates copy the path already settled on by states, just with less funding for programs. Comment: Investment, not posturing, will resolve homelessness Wire Service

Letter to the editor: Homelessness policy at a crossroads

America’s homelessness crisis demands united, evidence-based action — not contradictory policy. Under President Donald Trump, the First Lady's Be Best program commendably secured $25 million to support youth aging out of foster care to prevent homelessness. Yet the administration's broader…

Trump Administration Says It’s Going To Start Locking Up Homeless People - Above the Law

We’ve finally got a Stalin to call our own. Just like Soviet Russia, homelessness is now basically a criminal offense, thanks to Trump’s latest executive order, which pretends it’s about crime but actually just wants to put homelessness people in places where other Americans won’t be inconvenienced by them. Like most Trump executive orders, it’s got Orwell all over it: “Ending Crime And Disorder On America’s Streets” What’s the crime and disord…

President Trump’s executive order is an attack on Americans experiencing homelessness

Funding behavioral health, trauma-informed care, and affordable housing is the only viable path forward — not mass institutionalization.

Letters to the Editor: Nothing good will come of Trump’s executive order to force homeless off the streets

'There already aren't enough hospital beds to accommodate patients now and [President Trump] hasn't offered to pay for more,' writes an L.A. Times reader.