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DC’s homeless pack up as sweeps are expected. What we know about Trump’s plan to clear encampments
Some of the District of Columbia’s homeless residents were packing their belongings Thursday before expected sweeps to clear out remaining encampments around the nation’s capital, part of President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of policing in the city. Read more…
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D.C.’s homeless need housing, not jail, says legal advocate wary of Trump plan
President Trump wants unhoused people living in Washington D.C. to get off the streets and into shelters or out of the city altogether. But his administration has so far offered few details on how it will achieve this goal. Without a detailed plan on tackling homelessness in the nation’s capital, advocates like Amber Harding, executive […] Read more…
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Trump’s route to Kennedy Center cleared of homeless camps amid DC crackdown
Amber Harding, executive director of the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, said officials cleared at least two tents on a patch of green space near the Kennedy Center as Trump spoke at the performing arts center. Read more…
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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Primary sources
…Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, a nonprofit providing legal aid to people experiencing homelessness, argued the president does not have the power to move people outside the city’s borders. Read more…
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Press Release: Unlawful Arrests and Forced Displacement of Homeless DC Residents Expected as Soon as Tonight
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contacts National Homelessness Law Center- Jesse Rabinowitz (jrabinowitz@homelesslaw.org or 757.619.8957) Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless- Amber Harding (press@legalclinic.org) Miriam’s Kitchen– Silvana Quiroz- (silvana.quiroz@miriamskitchen.org) UNLAWFUL ARRESTS AND FORCED DISPLACEMENT OF HOMELESS DC RESIDENTS EXPECTED AS SOON AS TONIGHT (WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 12th) Advocates in D.C. expect the Trump administration to begin the illegal […] Read more…
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‘Move Out, Immediately:’ Trump’s vision for ridding DC streets of homeless
In an Aug. 10 social media post, Trump suggested he would move people sleeping outside “FAR from the Capital.” But Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, a nonprofit providing legal aid to people experiencing homelessness, argued the president does not have the power to move people outside the city’s borders. Read more…
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Washington DC Homeless Nonprofit Responds to Trump’s ‘Various Threats’
A nonprofit in Washington, D.C., has responded to President Donald Trump’s “various threats” after he pledged to evict homeless people from the nation’s capital. Read more…
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‘Shameful’: Analysts slam Trump’s warning for D.C. homeless to ‘move out immediately’
“People are not criminals or dangerous, by virtue of their unhoused status,” the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless wrote on X. People are struggling to afford rent and food in an expensive city. We should not have homelessness in our nation’s capital. But the path to ending homelessness is housing, not displacement. Read more…