Treatment Tops Housing in Trump Homeless Policy

Treatment Tops Housing in Trump Homeless Policy

Is homelessness a mental health and addiction crisis, or is it driven by an affordable housing crisis? That question underpins the debate among policymakers and politicians struggling to move people off the streets faster than they become homeless.  Researchers say housing is the most important intervention to end homelessness, and now a report from the University of California-San Francisco sheds deeper insight: While California’s high housing …

Trump signs Executive Order that will worsen homelessness in DC, violate rights, and waste resources - National Homelessness Law Center

Trump signs Executive Order that will worsen homelessness in DC, violate rights, and waste resources (WASHINGTON, D.C – March 28th) Amidst a national worsening housing and homelessness crisis, Donald Trump has signed an Executive Order that will make homelessness in DC worse, not better.   Trump’s Executive Order directs the Secretary of the Interior to utilize the National Park Service to displace homeless people surviving on federal lands in D…