Posted on 07/24/2025 2:02:27 PM PDT by DFG
President Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling on states and cities to “remove vagrant individuals” from the streets — and rehouse homeless people, drug addicts, and those suffering from mental problems in “treatment centers.”
The order redirects federal funding to finance “treatment centers, outpatient treatment and other facilities,” according to an official document viewed by The Post that describes the order.
On average, more than 274,000 people were sleeping on the streets each night last year under then-President Joe Biden, the file describing the order says.
“The overwhelming majority of these individuals are addicted to drugs, have a mental health disorder, or both,” the document says.
“Shifting these individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment is the most proven way to restore public order.”
Trump has for years complained about homeless encampments along major roads in Washington, DC, and proposed reopening insane asylums to house the nation’s most dangerous street people.
It was not immediately clear how much funding would be steered toward the new initiative, or whether there would be a parallel effort to reopen long-shuttered institutions as a public safety strategy.
States and municipalities that already crackdown on open illicit drug use and urban camping, loitering or squatting, and tracking sex offenders, will be prioritized for grants.
“President Trump is delivering on his commitment to Make America Safe Again and end homelessness across America,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.
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We canot let American cities become like Canada. I’ve lived in big cities all my life, and I was still shocked by what I saw in Vancouver.
Undoing JFK, now return to state mental hospitals.
HA!
Trump is reading my posts
How is it “humane” to leave homeless, mentally ill, and drug addicts on the streets?
Arrest them for vagrancy, send them to minimum security camps in the country with quonset huts. At least there they will have beds, food, clean water, and be separated from drug dealers.
Some left wing attorney will force the government to observe eminent domain and pay a fair price for the homeless card board shelters.
House Veterans.the rest can stay on the street for all I care.
To be honest, where are these long term treatment centers?
Once states took away support for mental hospitals there was a sudden increase of people living on the streets, under overpasses and in tent cities behind junkyards. Deinstitutionalization.
Coming up to pedestrians, becoming “squeegee men” and turning to crime. “Involved in the criminal justice system.”
Some spend all day in public libraries. If on drugs they cannot be admitted to the shelters.
Ones admitted to a hospital for a medical problem often have no place to go when discharged and no way to use “home healthcare” items for wounds or other needs.
Sounds more like a royal proclamation than an executive order.
There was a newspaper cartoon by Charles Guindon.
People in evening gowns and formal suits were coming out of the entrance of a fancy building to be picked up by limos.
A few shabbily dressed people were huddled nearby outside.
Caption:
There they are again. Poor people ruining our good times.
We need this badly in California.
Why do you say that?
The elevator was out of service and literally 50+ homeless were sitting on the ground inside the building. They all had used the elevator as a toilet, which stunk of feces and urine as we walked past it, with the homeless all opposite their latrine location. This was the daytime and the weather outside was great.
This was just a small city block from the high-end hotel we were staying at, back in 2016.
We have no plans to ever again visit San Francisco, as it's only gotten worse. Who hasn't seen that wonderful Poop Map of their cleanup tickets?
These people are not in their right minds—and places like San Francisco make them a level of royalty and let them do this and drugs, being “compassionate.”
They are all insane.
100%.
Sounds expensive. Who will pay for it?
Why neglect our Vets, and prioritize drug abusers?
Because it didn’t assign specific tasks and funding to that which is executed by federal employees.
Most of these, if I'm not mistaken, are basically self contained cities. There is housing, there are medical facilities, educational facilities, potential for fast food and other amenities that could provide job training, experience and more for those that need it. Addiction could be treated, those with more mild mental health issues could be trained for various jobs and helped with job placement in normal society.
It’s probably less expensive than policing problems they cause, or that are caused to them.
There’s one guy in our city missing a large part of his skull and is left homeless begging for food and money. It’s sad.
Because he is a 9 year troll who should go back to lurking.
You loved in cities why? They’re shxtholes.
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