Some of the 800 National Guard troops deployed by US President Donald Trump to Washington, D.C., have started to arrive. It comes a day after he ordered federal forces to take control of the US capital’s police, citing what he said was a crime emergency. But city leaders have pointed to data showing violent crime is declining and is now at a 30-year low. Trump issued a presidential order to address Washington D.C.’s "bedlam and squalor" and has vowed to "clean up" the city’s homeless and told them to move out "immediately." Experts argue that solutions – which are not adequately funded – exist to address homelessness, and that forcibly moving them to remote locations, without improving shelters, will not have a positive effect.
Chapter Breakdown:
0:00 Trump deploys National Guard to ‘clean up’ D.C. homelessness
2:40 Donald Whitehead, Executive Director, National Coalition for the Homeless, on whether a homelessness crisis exists in D.C., and why Trump’s approach to the unhoused is unwise
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