US EditionTrump’s Crackdown on Homelessness: What Does It Mean for California?
CALIFORNIA, JUL 24 – The order shifts federal homelessness policy toward law enforcement and involuntary treatment, threatening to cut funding from cities that do not enforce encampment removal and anti-camping laws.
- In Washington, President Donald Trump unveiled a sweeping order on July 24, directing aggressive measures to clear encampments and relocate unhoused individuals to treatment or institutional care.
- The state's homelessness crisis, marked by high addiction and mental illness rates, underscores that in recent years, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has pushed cities to address unsheltered living.
- It instructs U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek reversal of court precedents limiting local authority to move homeless people into treatment centers, following Trump's executive order.
- Some local leaders in Orange County are responding with concern and support, with Katrina Foley supporting stricter enforcement for dangerous individuals.
- Looking ahead, some experts say President Trump could use the order to cut off funding to California, and the executive action reflects a broader ideological shift in U.S. homelessness policy that may shape debates in the years ahead.
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Trump’s crackdown on homelessness: What does it mean for California?
By Marisa Kendall | CalMatters President Donald Trump’s new law-and-order approach to homelessness bears several striking resemblances to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s. Trump wants cities to enforce laws that make it illegal for homeless people to sleep outside. So does Newsom. Trump threatened to withhold funding from places that don’t. So did Newsom. And the president wants to make it easier to force homeless people living with serious mental illness or…
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union-bulletin.comTrump’s homelessness crackdown direction draws pushback and some nods in California's Orange County
Orange County officials and front-line workers are responding with a mix of concern and selective support to President Donald Trump 's new executive order targeting homelessness, a sweeping directive that leans heavily on law enforcement, civil commitments and mandatory treatment.
Trump’s homelessness crackdown direction draws pushback and some nods in Orange County
Orange County officials and frontline workers are responding with a mix of concern and selective support to President Donald Trump‘s new executive order targeting homelessness, a sweeping directive that leans heavily on law enforcement, civil commitments and mandatory treatment. Signed Thursday, July 24, the order calls for a reset on how federal and local governments address homelessness. It encourages states to expand civil commitments, which …
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