Trump paints a dark picture of homelessness in cities: 'We may intercede'

[Lady Freedom Returns]

By Eli Rosenberg and Alex Horton
July 2 at 1:13 PM
President Trump said Monday that he wanted to address the crisis of people on the streets, telling Fox News in an interview that his administration “may intercede” to clean up cities such as Washington, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

The president made the remarks in an interview he taped in Japan with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, after Carlson asked him about cities in Japan, which Carlson said are clean and free from graffiti and “junkies.” U.S. cities, by comparison, have a problem with “filth,” Carlson noted.

“It’s a phenomena that started two years ago,” Trump said, drawing a connection with the early days of his time in the White House. “It’s disgraceful.”

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[mr_lebowski]

1. Sounds like he has it in mind to build some more camps & throw the homeless in ...

This man is a utter and complete FASCIST.

BTW, cops really don't 'walk the beat' anymore, you fucking dumbass ...

[leftstreet]

2. Probably wants gvt contracts to build Trump Homeless Hotels

assclown

[Tanuki]

3. If he cared anything at all about homelessness, he would not have put Ben Carson

in charge of HUD.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/ncna1014881

"By Rep. Katie Porter, Democrat representing California’s 45th Congressional District

When Secretary Ben Carson appeared before Congress at the end of May, I came prepared for a serious discussion about our nation’s housing supply. In my home district in Orange County, California, we have both a rental affordability crisisand a homeownership affordability crisis, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has an important role to play in helping working families who are feeling the squeeze.

While I wanted engagement from Carson on these critical issues, what I got was evasion. The American families losing their homes deserve details, but the secretary only offered deflection. In fact, Carson's two-plus years as the leader of HUD have been marked by failure after failure to do right by this country’s working families.

To start with, in last month’s hearing, Carson demonstrated no awareness of even the basics of his agency’s jurisdiction. His lack of familiarity with the term “real estate owned” or “REO,” an industry-standard term that anyone working with foreclosures would immediately recognize, was unsettling, particularly given the centrality of the concept to one of HUD’s most dire current failures. Too many Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-backed homes are being forced into unnecessary foreclosure proceedings, and when the foreclosure sales fail, the properties become REOs; they remain vacant for years and become eyesores."....(more)

[vlyons]

4. Oh let me guess

Put them in a for-profit "shelter" at $750/day.

So $750 x 30 days = $22500/month = $270,000/year

[mr_lebowski]

5. For which the de-facto jailed people will receive roughly $7.50/day in tangible benefits

And the Repub-owned 'shelters' will kick back $30/day to the 'Trump and GOP Congressional Campaigns', and pocket $37.50/day.

And Trump and the Turdle will laugh all the way to the bank ...

And the media will hand-wring over how far 'left' the Democrats have gone ... to be complaining ... after all, don't we supposedly care about the homeless?

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Make American Great Again: Bring back criminal vagrancy laws.

[eShirl]

7. Next into the camps.

Does he have a final solution in mind?

[durablend]

8. asdf

First they came for the immigrants...
Then they came for the homeless...
Next they came for the ??? (reporters, Democrats, PoC)