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Trump pushing for major crackdown on homeless camps in California, with aides discussing moving residents to government-backed facilities

Washington Post logoPresident Trump has ordered White House officials to launch a sweeping effort to address homelessness in California, citing the state’s growing crisis, according to four government officials aware of the effort.

The planning has intensified in recent weeks. Administration officials have discussed using the federal government to get homeless people off the streets of Los Angeles and other cities and into new government-backed facilities, according to two officials briefed on the planning.

But it is unclear how they could accomplish this and what legal authority they would use. It is also unclear whether the state’s Democratic politicians would cooperate with Trump, who has sought to embarrass them over the homelessness crisis with repeated attacks on their competency.

View the complete September 10 article by Jeff Stein, Tracy Jan, Josh Dawsey and Ashley Parker on The Washington Post website here.