As homelessness has worsened in many American cities, including Los Angeles, the Trump administration has largely neglected the issue, proposing few new initiatives and pushing cuts to housing programs that, if adopted, would likely make the crisis worse, according to analysts.
Defenders of the administration note that the amount of money going to state and local service providers to care for homeless people has not significantly changed under Trump and his Housing secretary, Ben Carson. In that sense, the allocation of money to homelessness service providers is “a continuation of Obama’s policies,” Roberts said.“Homelessness policy is a relatively small subset of overall HUD policy,” said Paul Webster, vice president of Solutions for Change, a Southern California-based nonprofit that fights family homelessness.
The 2019 budget proposal recommended the largest cutbacks on federal housing aid since 1937. The administration’s proposal would have eliminated Housing Choice Vouchers — which assist low-income households in paying for apartments — for roughly 200,000 low-income households. Reid and other experts pointed to two Trump administration proposals that increased the likelihood that members of vulnerable groups will either lose their housing or not be able to get out of homelessness.
When HUD analyzed the likely effect of this change, officials and concluded that it could lead to evictions of as many as 25,000 families, with 108,000 people, from housing units.
Why is it the federal government’s responsibility to bail out your homelessness? That is a state issue. Want to place the blame? Place it at the feet of Jerry Brown and the nut in the governor’s seat now.
FreeMedical! 65%of X county health insured by Med Cal billboards. CA broke, realDonaldTrump isn’t fixing the homeless problem CA created. Thanx for good laugh . So, were did Santa Cruz hide the homeless from the camp that was cleared?
More fake news.
I think the current political thinking is that we don't care about the poor people who need help. After all poor people don't have any political power. Instead give the money for social services to the millionaire 'job creators.'
Are you kidding?
The mayor of LA seems okay with the situation of homelessness so why would Trump interfere with something the Democrats have under control
Yeah. This is Trump’s fault. Nice try.
Trump is now responsible for homeless in CA? You have a problem that CA politicans can't resolve it must be because of Trump.
Hell no to federal funds for your homeless. California has one of the highest tax rates, if not the highest, in the country. What are you doing with those funds?
Yes because Obama did so much and has helped the homeless the whole 8 years he was in office? Gtfo
California’s government has made no secret of its rejection of the President...the State of California is responsible for it’s problems..you can’t blame Trump for your own failures...
TheCities of Los Angeles, San Francisco, NYC and many many more have failed to properly utilize the massive amounts of funding they have received to combat this problem. This is a local issue not a Federal issue.
Trump ignores everything I've said to him about it. You're one of the biggest newspapers in the country start Knocking on his door.
Blame the liberal California government.
Not really a function of the federal government...
What is California doing?
Isn’t it easier to just report things that aren’t trumps fault?
Excuse me! Isn’t homelessness a state and local problem LA passed ballot initiatives H and HHH worth billions! But local govt has failed our community due to gross incompetence and failure of leadership. So now the LAT wants to blame President Trump. A joke for sure, right?
Dems
Yeah, the Trump administration is the blame and the mayor and governor and city councils are blameless.
Oil companies and Amazon get huge tax breaks and no section 8 for hard working Americans
OMG now you want to blame TRUMP for the homeless crisis that the Dems have caused and ignore THATS RICH no sane person will buy what you are peddling CALI highest poverty rate homeless rate housing THESE PROBLEMS WERE CAUSED BY INCOMPETENT PANDERING DEMS 😂🇺🇸 we are not stupid
The Trump administration? It’s the CA state government where the blame lies.
TRUMPiCANS 🇺🇸
Feeble attempt to shift blame for the LA homeless onto the President. Decades of Socialist Democrat run state policies caused this mess. The blame and burden now sits squarely in the slimy lap of Gavin Newsom whose numbers are plummeting.. wonder why
What made homelessness worse was Los Angeles' sales tax increase to give the homeless more free stuff.
Mass homelessness is not a national problem. You only see it in liberal cities that won’t enforce the laws and it took decades to get this big. If it were a national issue every city in America would look like San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The crises is in Dem Govt control states
I thought ericgarcetti was going to get rid of homelessness in LA? But the problem has only gotten worse
Really? Would you support a friend who keeps on defying you, attacking and go against your laws? I would turn my back on California too if I were Trump and I live in California. Stop voting for the idiots that put Illigals first and use the money to solve the housing crisis!
Wtf ?! Why blame trump ? Is a crisis from a long time before he got there !😒
This is so rich . LA can’t or won’t clean up their own mess so it’s Trumps fault !
But CA didn’t want the Feds to tell them how to run their state, now they want them to now fix their problems? 🙄 You know who doesn’t care about CA’s homeless epidemic? SpeakerPelosi KamalaHarris AdamSchiff. They don’t.
I think you mean Garcetti
Go look at google maps and pull up these streets, this problem was brewing WAY before he ever thought about running for office, nice try though
Oh man don’t make me laugh. This the states problem. Trump said he would like to help. Newsom this state defys him at every turn. The libs snd illegals have killed the state all on their own. Voting to keep him off ballot right help ha ha
More BS and lies from the LA Times. The homeless issue is a direct result of the failure of the democratic leadership in the major cities that they control. We do not see homeless issues in states managed by Republicans.
That is not so LAT. Trump actually stated that it might be time for him to step in to the homelessness in America’s cities. LAT is just covering for the democrats in the liberal cities who created the crisis of homelessness & now want to blame others for their liberal mess.
So intellectually dishonest. The elected officials you should be calling out are ericgarcetti & GavinNewsom
Homeless crisis is another reflection of the economy. It shows the economy is not as good as he claims.
It's a you issue, Pumpkin, not a Federal issue. Y'all tax the shit out of your citizens and provide medical care to non citizens, apparently you have plenty of money to fix your problem.
Tell your mayor and governor to fix it. They’re sucking all our money because of the high taxes. Stop blaming Trump for everything and stop spreading lies. He’s been in office for 2 years. Keep voting dems and keep dragging California in the dirt.
lol blame homelessness crisis to Trump administration? Demofucks fucked this up long time ago.
You mean MayorOfLA & GavinNewsom? This is their problem not Trump. They should take care of Americans vs giving free medical & college to Illegals!
Fake news.
Ahhh so this is Trump’s fault too? What a novel take by the lefty LAT
But it’s CA lawmakers who created it so....I mean, did they create this to try & pimp $$ from Feds?
HE DOESNT CARE!!!
Haha is this a joke?
It starts with local government. EVERYONE has failed miserably!
LA Times, the California homeless crisis is right in the lap of the California Democrats running your state...they run Sacramento, are the governor, they are the Mayor of LA and SF and run the city councils of both cities and they have done nothing to help the 150,000 homeless
State issue not federal
Did ericgarcetti write this?
Nice try, this problem started well before Trump & sadly will probably still be rampant long after he’s gone. Although maybe he should get involved after LA spent $600 million last year & the homeless population increased.
If you're priced out of an area, you need to move somewhere you can afford to live. Some people insist on staying in the same area they can't afford to live, even if that means sleeping on the sidewalk. We need affordable housing, in affordable areas.
Disagree; Trump wants to exacerbate, make salient cities under Democratic control - Trump administration largely neglects the homelessness crisis, proposing few new initiatives & pushing cuts to housing programs that, if adopted, would likely make the crisis worse, experts say.
Homelessness is another problem that Trump has failed to address.
😂😂😂 That would be a Democrat run city problem. Raise taxes. That always works
Democrats create crisis.
No shit.
This is an emergency. Our public health and way of life is at stake. Get people off of the street now. This should not become a way of life.
HOUSING is NOT THE issue. I think Dr. Drew has been VERY VOCAL about that and long time CALIFORNIANS also know better. The issue is mental health and DRUGS.