Officials from Ministry of Justice Who manages Grant distributs are ways to clear homeless stitches and increase an involuntary hospitalization of an individual with mental illness, in accordance with email obtainedWashington Post.
This represents the latest indications that the Trump Administration follows on the obligation to aggressively remove homeless from public spaces, as president Donald Trump spoke about the 2024 campaign. years.
Only last month, the president issued an executive order directed to make County Columbia “Safe and beautiful”, which referred National Park Service To remove all Kampene for homeless from the Federal Earth in the capital.
He spoke about the past about Homeless housing in tent cities On the cheap country on the outskirts of cities and closing those who refuse “treatment.”
E-mail was sent on Thursday night employees in justice office programs and included eight questions looking for an entry to best focus on questions concerning questions concerning issues homelessness and mental illness. Recipients are till Wednesday to submit their answers.
“What can make more efficiently transfer chronic public square sharm and in a concentrated space so that the order can return, and resources and services can be arranged more efficiently?” One of the reading questions.
Email stated that the White House focused the department and other agencies to provide legislative, financing and other solutions for issues related to homelessness, mental health and more.
Many e-mail recipients in the Ministry of Justice with grants and specialize in the implementation of the departmental policies aimed at improving public safety through the research and community support.
“What can do to increase the availability and use of involuntary commitment to individuals with a serious mental illness that, otherwise, cannot or will not get care?” Another question. “Alternatively, what can the Federal Government make to transfer the policies and behavior and behavior of local governments in this matter?”
The staff also requested ideas on how to reduce the levels and increase the resources available in indoor people who face addiction and mental illness in federal prisons.
Another question was asked to prioritize mental health resources for people who suffer from the most serious mental diseases: “What federal resources should be redirected from the accompanying mental health treatment for limited mental disease priorities, for the priority of limited resources and efficiency?”
Traditionally, both republican and democratic administrations focused on “housing first” access to homesistry and mental illness – call people in steady housing and then direct them Mental health services or help with the eye Drug addiction. He asked an email which federal programs should maintain such an approach.
Are already deep cuts on homelessness efforts Department of Housing and Urban DevelopmentWhat might worsen the number of people’s numbered people, the advocates warn.
Talking to PostDonald Whitehead, Executive Director of the National Homeless Coalition, expressed concern that the inclusion of the Ministry of Justice by the Management Board could lead to prosecution people living on the streets.
“My immediate reaction is to talk to the wrong people to find solutions for homelessness. The criminal justice system and doj cannot solve homelessness,” he said in the newspaper. “The right solution is housing.”
In June 2024. He was ruled by the Supreme Court In order to allow homelessness criminalization After the conservative majority, he said he would enable the laws that allow the police to in the candidacy or arrest those who sleep in public areas.
The American Interagency Council on Homeless Management, which coordinates the policy through the Federal Government, is effectively closed on behalf of the Elon Musk Production Department Earlier this month.
With less than 20 employees and budgets of only more than four million in 1987. created an agency to make sure that the Federal Response to homelessness is coordinated, efficient and reduced duplication through federal agencies.