Updated August 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM PDT

President Trump wants unhoused people living in Washington D.C. to get off the streets and into shelters or out of the city altogether. But his administration has so far offered few details on how it will achieve this goal.

Without a detailed plan on tackling homelessness in the nation's capital, advocates like Amber Harding, executive director of the nonprofit Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, worry the focus will be on criminalizing those who have nowhere to go.

"Everything they do is outside and in public. They are the segment of the community that is the most scrutinized for criminal behavior," Harding said in an interview with Morning Edition , noting that more than a dozen police forces operate around Washington.

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