Executive decree calling on the municipalities and states of the US to dismantle any homeless camp, Donald Trump signed. The US president told the decree that those living in camps should be transferred to mental illness centers or detox centers.
However, he made no reference to plans to expand these centers, nor the disposal of cheap housing in the long run.
Also, the executive decree describes ‘priority’ donations and funding to cities imposed and applied prohibition in public places, substance use, and occupations.
Yet, prevents funding for the creation of controlled drug use spaces.
The decree follows a ruling by the Federal Supreme Court in 2024, which allowed municipalities to outlaw homeless camps.
On this basis, Justice Minister Pam Bodi has the right to overturn legally in state and federal level and to consent to local initiatives to dismantle homeless camps.
Hundreds of thousands of people live on the street
In 2024, it was estimated that the homeless in the US exceeded them 770,000number increased by 18%. Of these people, 36% lived in streetsto vehicles or in campsaccording to official data.
Some scholars of the phenomenon consider that the Homeless crisis began when psychiatry closed the years of 1960 and 1970 and promoted food care at communities. This transition was made without sufficient funding and ineffectively, leaving without healing and roofing people with serious mental health problems.
Other causes are considered to be the acute lack of cheap roofthe increase in the percentage of citizens plaguing poverty and the cuts to help programs who provided access to working houses and housing programs subsidized by the State.
Reactions and fears of rising homeless
The National Coalition for the Homeless alliance has denounced the decree, stressing that It undermines legal means of protecting homeless and mentally ill.
According to the organization, the Trump government has a “worrying history” as it tends to “defy civil rights and correct legal procedures”. Alliance warned that by decree or Home crisis is likely to get worse.
For its part, the National Homelessness Law Center said that this decree, in combination with budget cuts in the budget for housing and health funds, would further increase the number of homeless people.
He also stressed that the Mandatory homeless transfer to treatment centers are ‘unethical, ineffective and illegal’ And that the White House plan will turn even more people into homeless people and at the same time deprive resources from people in need.
Other organizations estimate that the decree threatens to criminalize the stupidas it will force people to leave the streets without guaranteeing in any way that a roof will be found for them.
Source :Skai
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