President Donald Trump brings peace and stability back to the streets of DC, ravaged by the crime. He ends the chaos in our capital, restores beauty to the city and makes the district safer for all Americans.
The Commonsce Policy of the President has also uncovered the depth of misguided anger to our men and women in uniform, where the most recent example is the bitterness shown by activists against the National Guard. Unfortunately, this hostility towards those who defend themselves against lawlessness goes beyond street scenes that harass the brave men and women who fight against crime.
In 2024, the BIDEN Administration published a notification of financing opportunities (NOFO) for the Continuum of Care (COC) program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which was designed to finance organizations working to tackle homelessness. We soon discovered that, like many departmental programs, it was strayed by its original intention and a wrongly managed Slush Fund, it became endless homelessness supported by the government instead of supplying real solutions.
Members of the federal law enforcement walk past a homeless woman outside the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC, August 14, 2025. (Reuters/Nathan Howard)
What we have discovered reveals the severity of the waste, fraud and abuse under the Biden administration, as well as the contempt for law enforcement. The NOFO unveiled an administration that gave priority to granting HUD funds to groups that refused to help helpfully collaborate with law enforcement.
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The HUD van Biden rewarded groups that “… minimize the use of law enforcement (D) to enforce prohibitions in public sleeping, public camping or performing basic lives functions in public places.”
That policy was rooted in a worldview that treats law enforcement as the enemy. Of the “Defund the police” rhetoric not to “work with the police” policy, this hostility towards those who maintain the law, has become deeply embedded in the Democratic Party.
But let’s be clear: the real enemy when it comes to helping Americans who live on the street, are not those who risk their lives to enforce straight and order, it is the cycle of endless government handouts that homelessness Bankroll while ignoring his main causes.
Those rustic causes are addiction and untreated mental disorders. And they can be seen completely in our cities. Extensive camps, public drug use and random violent attacks destroyed in the big cities that Americans call home. Every day, overdoses claims lives and the most vulnerable false victim of violence.
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This status quo is unacceptable. That is why HUD drives a paradigm shift to end this crisis.
At HUD, our responsibility is for both the most vulnerable Americans and for taxpayers whose hard -earned dollars we entrust to a steward. Nobody should suffer on our streets, and nobody can run them into fear.
The Biden administration has spent four years denying the Commonsense reality that homelessness at street level is a crisis on public safety driven by addiction and mental disorders. During that time, more than $ 12 billion in the taxpayer of working Americans in the COC program was led with nothing but high rates of homelessness to show. In cities such as Los Angeles and New York, billions more are wasted on local resources.
How did we get here? Due to failed leadership that blindly loyalty to “first housing” – an ideology that promotes fully subsidized homes, forever, attached to zero strings.
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But our goal is to have Hud use real, proven effective strategies, and there is no evidence that giving free apartments to homeless people without preconditions or participation requirements – such as work training or treatment – leads to good results.
There is Proof, however, that countless lives have been lost for overdoses in HUD -funded homes because of this failed ideology.
According to HUD’s most recent data, residents were twice as likely to die in “permanent supporting homes” for homeless people than to go to non-subsidized homes, and the death rate of Heads of Households in these units rose by almost a third of 2019-2022. Local governments report that they more often lose people in overdoses in insulated subsidized homes and hotel rooms than outside on the street.
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Another tragic failure of the reaction of progressivism to homelessness has been the systematic exclusion of faith -based organizations. That policy changed when Americans chose President Trump, because this government acknowledges that the very first organizations to serve the homeless in this nation were Christian ministries – and that they are core partners in this mission to this day.
I have walked the corridors of shelter programs, transition housing and recovery centers where the life transformation takes place every day because of the faith of the men and women who serve there, who dress, nourish and care for those made in God’s image. These loyal servants make it vulnerable to take steps to recover and become self -sufficient.
I have witnessed the power of faith firsthand and HUD will continue to support this essential work as an important part of our campaign to tackle homelessness.
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The paradigm has shifted, and my message is this: for the organizations that restore self -supply to a broken life, HUD wants to work with you. Hud is wise to the working Americans who have entrusted us with your resources. For the law enforcers who protect our communities, HUD acknowledges you as critical to make our streets safer. For men and women who have come out of addiction and homelessness, HUD sees you as proof that recovery is possible.
And everyone who is trapped in the grip of addiction on our streets is also possible for you.
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