Democrats and advocates criticize Trump’s executive order on homelessness

San Francisco – The main democrats and defenders of the homeless criticize a decree that President of President Donald Trump signed this week aimed at withdrawing the homeless from the street, perhaps by committing them for mental health or drug treatment without their consent.

Trump ordered some of his chiefs of his chiefs to prioritize the funding of cities that retract the consumption of open drugs and the street campsite, in order to make people more safe. It is not compassionate to do nothing, indicates the order.

“The displacement of these individuals in long -term institutional environments for human treatment is the most proven means of restoring public order,” said order.

Sans-Abrisme has become a more important problem in recent years as the cost of housing has increased, especially in states like California where there are not enough houses to meet demand. At the same time, drug addiction and overdoses have skyrocketed with the availability of a cheap and powerful fentanyl.

The President’s order could be intended for liberal cities such as San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York, which Trump considers too lax on the conditions in their streets. But many of the concepts have already been proposed or tested in California, where Governor Gavin Newsom and the Democratic mayors have worked for years to get people out of the street and heal.

Last year, the United States Supreme Court allowed cities to clean the camps, even if the people who live there have nowhere to go.

However, the defenders say that Trump’s new order is vague, punitive and does not effectively end homelessness.

Newsom ordered cities to clean homeless camps and he channel more money in programs to treat dependence and mental health disorders.

His office said on Friday that Trump’s order is based on harmful stereotypes and focuses more on “the creation of distracting titles and the regulations of old scores”.

“But, his imitation (even poorly executed) is the highest form of flattery,” said spokesperson Tara Gallegos in a statement, referring to the president calling strategies already used in California.

The mayor of San Francisco, Daniel Lurie, also underlined the importance of the own streets and ordered in the ban on the homeless to live in the VR and to ask people to accept the offers of shelters of the city. In the Silicon Valley, the mayor of San Jose, Matt Mahan, recently pushed a change in policy that makes a person eligible for prison if they rejected three shelters.

The Attorney General of the Executive Order of Trump, Pam Bondi, and the Secretaries for Health, Housing and Transport to prioritize subsidies to States and Local Governments which apply prohibitions on open drug consumption and the street campsite.

Devon Kurtz, director of public security policies at the Cicero Institute, a conservative policy group who pleaded for several provisions of the decree, said that the organization was “delighted” by the order.

He recognized that California has already moved to ban the camps since the decision of the Supreme Court. But he said Trump’s order adds to the change, Kurtz said.

“It is a clear message to these communities which were still somehow uncomfortable because it was such a big change in politics,” said Kurtz.

But Steve Berg, director of policies at the National Alliance to put an end to roaming, called the parties of the vague order. He said the United States had abandoned forced institutionalization decades ago because it was too expensive and had raised moral and legal concerns.

“What is problematic about this decree is not as long as the police are involved – this is what it calls the police to do, which is to force people,” said Berg. “This is not the right approach to deal with homelessness.”

The most populous city mayor in California, Los Angeles, disagrees with Newsom and Trump administrations on homelessness. Mayor Karen Bass, a democrat, opposes punishing scales and says that the city has reduced the roaming of the street by working with homeless to shelter or housing.

“Move people from a street at the next or from the street to prison and again will not solve this problem,” she said in a statement.

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Kramon reported to Atlanta. She is a member of the body of the Associated Press / Report for the America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a non-profit national services program that places journalists from local editorial rooms to account for undercurrent issues.