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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Apologies if this should be in the 7 nights of action thread but it seems like a topic worthy of separate attention and discussion.

This is just insane.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/08/11/dc-ag-warns-involuntary-commitments-dc-trump-homeless/[/quote]
You want mentally ill people staying on the streets?[/quote]

+1[/quote]

DP: You guys have never studied or worked on the streets with this issue at all. Think this through. Where are they going to go? Is there room? Who is paying for it? Is there enough money? What if they don't want to stay there?

What about the homeless who have already begun the long and difficult process of getting help by establishing relationships with volunteers on the streets who are earning their trust and working through the system to get that person available help? What happens when the person is arrested and moved to God knows where and cannot be found by the trained professional person they used to trust? They are back behind square 1.

Why are they homeless? What has been done to change the conditions that put them on the streets in the first place? Who is actually doing the work to solve those problems and who is making it impossible to address those problems?

IF Trump actually cares about these people, why isn't he asking the folks who work this issue for a living what resources they actually need to help this population?

Because he doesn't care -- he doesn't want to help them; he wants them gone. He just doesn't want to see tents on the way to his golf course.[/quote]

This. A 72 hour psych hold will accomplish nothing except more fear and trauma. Which I suppose is Trump's goal.

If he cared about poverty and homelessness, he certainly wouldn't be cutting medicaid, snap, and HUD.[/quote]

He wants fear and trauma so he’s trying to get the homeless off the streets??

Some of you are so brainwashed that you can’t even think logically about issues. You have liberals on here criticizing sending homeless people to the hospitals for medical assistance. It’s like left wing people arguing that illegals should be able to remain for low wage jobs (farm workers for example). Since when do liberals want to take advantage of American workers?  Since when do you want people living on the streets?

Homelessness is a big problem, much worse here than other countries and I welcome ideas about what to do about it. [/quote]

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