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Trump’s DC Occupation Costs 4 Times More Than It Would Take to House City’s Entire Homeless Population

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Trump's DC Occupation Costs 4 Times More Than It Would Take to House City's Entire Homeless Population

Photo: U.S. Army Soldiers from the District of Columbia National Guard position vehicles outside Union Station in D.C. as part of the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force, […] Photo credit: U.S. Army National Guard photo by Tech Sgt. Andrew Enriquez, 113th Wing – Aug. 15, 2025. DVIDS. Public Domain. Article by Stephen Prager. Common Dreams – August 22, 2025.

Last week, when Trump federalized Washington, DC’s police force and deployed the National Guard to occupy its streets, one of his main orders was to “end vagrancy” by destroying homeless encampments and arresting and forcibly relocating the people taking shelter there. But according to an investigation published on Wednesday by Hanna Homestead of the National Priorities Project, in collaboration with The Intercept, deploying the National Guard and “getting rid of the slums” is costing far more than it would cost to simply provide housing to every homeless person in the city. […]

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