Newsom’s Office Blasts Trump’s Homelessness Order as a Harmful ‘Imitation’
Beth Stokes, executive director of Episcopal Community Services San Francisco, worries the order threatens to undo decades of progress in the movement to end homelessness.
“We are deeply troubled by the administration’s executive order, which abandons compassionate and evidence-based programs, like harm reduction and housing first, and replaces them with cruel policies such as forced treatment and criminalizing poor people for being unhoused,” she said in a statement. “Instead of investing in solutions we know work, this policy punishes people for the system’s failures.”