The Trump administration is overturning the federal government’s decade-long approach to addressing homelessness, and some local officials and activists are hoping it will provide the momentum needed to enact those same reforms in Spokane and across the county.

In a July 24 executive ordered titled “ Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets ,” President Donald Trump has reframed the federal government’s approach to homelessness from a public health issue to one of public safety, arguing for the long-term institutionalization of the chronically homeless and the abolition of “Housing First” programs that have largely been the status quo since the first term of former President George W. Bush.

“Endemic vagrancy, disorderly behavior, sudden confrontations, and violent attacks have ma

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