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

[Mac-7]

Waste, corruption, incompetence, abuse of power – this is the fascist Trump regime.

Less so under trump than with swamp rat presidents

 

[Mac-7]

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95% of the murder victims in DC are black. Not one black person was murdered last week. Are you saying black lives don't matter?

The left cant stand it when trump is right

 

[IM2]

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95% of the murder victims in DC are black. Not one black person was murdered last week. Are you saying black lives don't matter?

How about spending a million dollars per day in DC to provide economic development, like building businesses and creating jobs, as well as sheltering the homeless? That will save more black lives than this siege.

 

[IM2]

Until you Republicans demand Trump's removal from office and sentencing for his crimes, don't say jack about crime.

 

[theHawk]

Trump has said one of his goals in DC is to do something about the homeless population. The problem with thinking on the right is that they believe that the most punitive actions are solutions for problems. Oftentimes, their punitive "solutions" cost more and are less effective than the so-called soft liberal policies they say are the problem.

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

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.

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.


Governors from six US states have sent troops to Washington to help Trump's effort, swelling the ranks to nearly 2,100 who will soon be on patrol.

According to previous reporting, National Guard deployments cost the US government $530 per guard member each day. Using that figure, Homestead estimated that it would cost just over $1.1 million.

She added that "the number of troops will likely continue to grow. And with no deadline for the DC deployment, those costs could add up for months or even years."

According to the most recent data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), there are about 5,600 people experiencing either sheltered and unsheltered homelessness in DC on a given night. Operating an affordable housing unit for each one of them, the data shows, costs about $45.44 per person, per day, on average in DC.

Providing affordable housing to every homeless person in DC would cost an estimated $255,166, which is 4.3 times less than the cost of Trump's military deployment.

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

Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, DC costs more than 4 times as much as it would cost to simply house every homeless person in the city, according to researcher Hanna Homestead.

www.commondreams.org

Draconian measures cost draconian money. And we get told how we cannot force the government to spend to provide housing for the homeless. Yet the same people who declare how it's wasteful to spend money to provide housing to the homeless, but cheer the more costly use of troops to take them off the streets.

This is why you do not elect right-wing politicians if you want real solutions.

Translation: the cost of failed Democrat crime policies is costing us a lot of money to clean up.

 

[theHawk]

Until you Republicans demand Trump's removal from office and sentencing for his crimes, don't say jack about crime.

Why would we need to remove President Trump from office in order to say Jack about crime?

 

[IM2]

Translation: the cost of failed Democrat crime policies is costing us a lot of money to clean up.

No, that's not the translation since there are Republican cities with higher crime than DC.

 

[IM2]

Why would we need to remove President Trump from office in order to say Jack about crime?

Trump [p is a criminal. Until he is gone, America isn't stopping crime.

 

[MarathonMike]

Waste, corruption, incompetence, abuse of power – this is the fascist Trump regime.

You don't understand what 'fascist' means. Actually there's a lot you don't understand.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

Trump has said one of his goals in DC is to do something about the homeless population. The problem with thinking on the right is that they believe that the most punitive actions are solutions for problems. Oftentimes, their punitive "solutions" cost more and are less effective than the so-called soft liberal policies they say are the problem.

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

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.

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.


Governors from six US states have sent troops to Washington to help Trump's effort, swelling the ranks to nearly 2,100 who will soon be on patrol.

According to previous reporting, National Guard deployments cost the US government $530 per guard member each day. Using that figure, Homestead estimated that it would cost just over $1.1 million.

She added that "the number of troops will likely continue to grow. And with no deadline for the DC deployment, those costs could add up for months or even years."

According to the most recent data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), there are about 5,600 people experiencing either sheltered and unsheltered homelessness in DC on a given night. Operating an affordable housing unit for each one of them, the data shows, costs about $45.44 per person, per day, on average in DC.

Providing affordable housing to every homeless person in DC would cost an estimated $255,166, which is 4.3 times less than the cost of Trump's military deployment.

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

Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, DC costs more than 4 times as much as it would cost to simply house every homeless person in the city, according to researcher Hanna Homestead.

www.commondreams.org

Draconian measures cost draconian money. And we get told how we cannot force the government to spend to provide housing for the homeless. Yet the same people who declare how it's wasteful to spend money to provide housing to the homeless, but cheer the more costly use of troops to take them off the streets.

This is why you do not elect right-wing politicians if you want real solutions.

Cleaning up sixty years of the failures of leftism isn’t going to be cheap.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

How about spending a million dollars per day in DC to provide economic development, like building businesses and creating jobs, as well as sheltering the homeless? That will save more black lives than this siege.

No it won’t.

 

[22lcidw]

The point is occupation, not crime reduction.

You say its occupation. Ask the people under Covid restrictions what occupation is.

 

[Chuz Life]

Waste, corruption, incompetence, abuse of power – this is the fascist Trump regime.

Thread 'The Word "Fascism" and its over-use as an attack on Conservatives.'

Aug 6, 2025

Fascism is probably the most over-used go-to attacks/ labels as of late.

One doesn't have to search very deep to find hundreds, if not thousands of examples of the left using the word "Fascist" or "fascism" to attack Trump and/ or his "MAGA" supporters.

But it's a projection on their part.

One of the most basic identifiers of fascism is the denial of basic human rights and the recognition of all human beings as equally deserving of basic human rights and protections.

Consider this Q&A I had with AI (Co Pilot and Grok.)

I have two examples of social-political positions that I have...

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[Independent thinker]

I'm saying it would reduce crime to provide housing and crime prevention programs. What is being done now is not creating zero crime.

And what is being done by the large cities isn't what you say. They have high crime.

 

[Bootstraps]

An L.A. hotel became homeless housing. The city paid $11.5 million to cover the damage

L.A. quietly paid the Mayfair Hotel $11.5 million to cover damage incurred when the building was homeless housing. Now, the mayor wants to buy the building.

www.latimes.com

When LA forced a hotel to take in the homeless.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

How about spending a million dollars per day in DC to provide economic development, like building businesses and creating jobs, as well as sheltering the homeless? That will save more black lives than this siege.

That's a waste of money if the crime rate is through the roof...lol.

Before you can invest in economic development, you first have to invest in lowering crime.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

Until you Republicans demand Trump's removal from office and sentencing for his crimes, don't say jack about crime.

You people are such ******* morons...lol

 

[longly]

The point is occupation, not crime reduction.

But crime has been reduced, and in the end, that is all that really matters.

 

[westwall]

The point is occupation, not crime reduction.

Tell that to the black dudes who are still alive today because of it.

DURRRRRR

 

[westwall]

Why didn't you just make a post proclaiming how much you suck at math?

Math is racist, don't ya know!