Yahoo article "Former President Donald Trump has released the outlines a new homelessness policy based on banning urban camping, setting up tent cities, and sending people who decline “treatment” to jail.
Mr Trump has increasingly focused in his current campaign for the White House on rising levels of homelessness in major cities and is taking a characteristically authoritarian approach to dealing with them. In a new video, Mr Trump proposes banning camping wherever possible; arresting anyone found sleeping in unsanctioned areas outdoors; and presenting people with a choice: either agree to enter treatment programmes or go to jail.
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Violators of these bans will be arrested, but they will be given the option to accept treatment and services if they’re willing to be rehabilitated,” Mr Trump said in a recent video. “Many of them don’t want that. But we’ll give them the option.”
“We will then open up large parcels of inexpensive land, bring in doctors, psychiatrists, social workers, and drug rehab specialists and create tent cities where the homeless can be relocated and their problems identified,” Mr Trump said in the video. “But we’ll open up our cities again, make them livable and make them beautiful.”
It is unclear as of yet how Mr Trump would fund his plan. The operation of the “tent cities” alone would likely require a vast amount of money, as would the employment of doctors and social workers to work with houseless people."
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