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Could Trump's new HUD create homeless detention camps? Here's what we know

During Donald Trump's presidency, the Trump campaign in 2023 promised to address urban camping by working with states to ban it, opening inexpensive land, bringing in specialists, and creating tent cities.
This plan followed concerns that the current approaches to addressing homelessness are badly broken, as stated by HUD Secretary Scott Turner, who declined to reject the idea of government-run detention camps.
Advocates for unhoused people are concerned that the administration might expand carceral approaches, incentivize camping bans, and expand involuntary commitment based on an inability to meet basic needs.
Jesse Rabinowitz, the communications director for the National Homelessness Law Center, stated it was "terrifying" that the HUD secretary wouldn't condemn detention camps, and that this wasn't a deal breaker for senators.
These concerns are amplified by actions like the January Louisiana sweeps of homeless encampments before the Super Bowl, where over 100 people were bused to a warehouse, costing taxpayers $17.5 million for 90 days, and the February passage of a camping ban in Fremont, California.

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Could Trump's new HUD create homeless detention camps? Here's what we know

Tom Brenner for The Washington Post via Getty Images Could Trump’s new HUD create homeless detention camps? Here’s what we know In January, Louisiana state troopers, alongside other state agencies, swept homeless encampments in downtown New Orleans and bused over 100 people to an industrial warehouse away from the city center in an effort to hide the city’s homelessness crisis from Super Bowl tourists. The Louisiana governor’s office told the As…

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Blumenthal says Trump's HUD cuts would increase homelessness

(Sait Serkan Gurbuz / AP)President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, headed by Elon Musk, has said it plans to lay off 50% of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's workforce and eliminate half of its field offices.Those cuts would increase homelessness in Connecticut, according to U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT).“We’ve asked for information in three to four letters. And the secretary for Housing and Urban D…

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