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Trump demands homeless ‘immediately’ move out of Washington DC to make nation’s capital ‘more beautiful’
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2025
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Yep.
That's his plan.
He's mentioned it a few times.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-homelessness-policy-tent-cities-b2322102.html
Now he has begun to act toward those ends.
https://shelterforce.org/2025/02/14/trump-wants-to-force-homeless-people-into-tent-cities-can-he/
Ah, well, no, wrong, ShelterForce, see above public speech from Trump 2 years ago, or just look outside right now.
https://homelesslaw.org/statement7242025/
My guesstimate is that within a year of Trump's collapsing economy and cuts to all kinds of social programs (so, by Feb 2026), we're looking at roughly 10 million homeless people.
You know, just about the population of entire Chicago metro area.
Was probably around 2-3 million back during Covid.
No, the PIT count numbers of several hundred thousand, they're wrong.
Source is me, I used to be one of the people who contributed to that count, as a data analyst for a large nonprofit serving the homeless.
The PIT methodology is a complete joke, it only counts people in shelters or at known permanent encampments (which are all illegal now), you roughly have to multiply it by 3x to 5x if you want to match the demographics of all the people who call in, say they are or will soon become homeless, and then we either can't help them because we don't have the resources, or they don't want to come to a shelter full of traumatized poor people and would rather live in a car (also illegal now) or hop from motel to motel untill they run out of money (2 or 3 months on average).
EDIT:
Trump/MAGA's insane response to Covid unironically may have actually killed enough people, disproportionately in red areas, that it actually caused his election loss, and then subsequent Jan 6th coup attempt.
Now he's gonna more directly kill millions of Americans, an order of magnitude more.
I'm pretty sure the end game for the Republicans is to balkanize the United States and issue fiefdoms to billionaires. I can't believe I'm saying this seriously, but I anticipate States beginning to seceed within a decade. It wouldn't surprise me if gerrymanderig states into single party enclaves is the beginning. I've lived in Pennsylvania my whole life but I suspect my California birth certificate may become the most valuable asset I own one day.
And he's just getting started. We're not even 7 months in to this.
How about trying an executive order to install universal Medicare/Medicaid throughout every US state & territory so none of our neighbors have to move & our communities & nation can remain intact.
10m is low