
09/13/2025
“When someone loses their housing, it’s not because they need to be institutionalized — it’s because we’ve allowed housing to become a commodity instead of a human right. . . immigrants and working-class households in particular are experiencing acute displacement pressure, which ultimately pushes some to become houseless — and now they find themselves in the crosshairs of the president’s July executive order.”
President Trump's executive order fuses drug use and homelessness into a single issue without revealing that homelessness can cause or exacerbate substance use disorder — because people use drugs to cope with privation. Bad system