The Numbers Don't Lie: Where Are They Going to Put 770,000 Americans?

They're cutting housing programs while planning mass detention. The math doesn't add up, unless disappearing Americans is the point.

The question nobody in Washington wants to answer:

Where are they going to put 770,000 Americans?

Trump's Executive Order weaponizes poverty, criminalizes homelessness, and empowers mass civil commitment. Cities are being forced to clear their streets of what MAGA calls "American filth."

But there's nowhere to put unhoused Americans. There are no treatment centers and no facilities. There is no plan beyond making them disappear, to make “our cities pretty again.”

In the article linked below, we dissected Trump’s Executive Order that enables and encourages cities to clear their streets of the homeless.

Beyond the EO, there are real people and real numbers.

The Numbers

The 2024 Point-in-Time (PIT) count officially recognizes 770,000 homeless Americans. That number is wildly underestimated. The real figure is likely in the millions. However, the PIT count is what the federal government uses for funding allocation.

Now here's where the arithmetic raises red flags:

• Housing that exists: 16 million vacant homes across the U.S.

• People who need housing: 770,000 homeless Americans

• Math: Every homeless person could choose from 20.77 available homes

But we don't easily house people in America, because housing costs money. Detention, on the other hand, makes money.

The Funding Bloodbath

Under Biden's final budget, homelessness assistance got $10.3 billion. That was a 6% increase focused on evidence-based programs like Housing First and harm reduction.

Under Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill," those programs are being systematically destroyed:

• $532 million cut from homelessness assistance: That’s a 12% reduction while unsheltered homelessness increased 21%

• Continuum of Care program eliminated: This kills the primary federal funding source for local efforts

• Two-year limits on assistance: Apparently, being poor should have an expiration date

• Housing First and harm reduction banned: despite decades of evidence that these programs work.

They're cutting programs to eliminate most options that actually reduce homelessness while expanding every program that criminalizes it. It’s challenging not to label this for what it is: hunting homeless people.

Where The 770,000 Are Really Going

Since Reagan gutted the Mental Health Systems Act, we've had no adequate facilities for mental health treatment. So where exactly are 770,000 people going when civil commitment becomes the standard response to visible poverty?

Option 1: Tent Cities Trump promised on the campaign trail to build tent cities "out of sight and out of mind" with zero oversight. Picture concentration camps in the desert, but call them "wellness facilities."

Option 2: Mixed Detention Round up homeless Americans alongside undocumented immigrants and stuff them into the same detention facilities. Both groups have constitutional rights. Both groups are being kidnapped and disappear from public view.

Option 3: Alcatraz 2.0 Trump's people recently toured San Francisco's Alcatraz, considering reopening it as an actual prison for "dangerous criminals" and undocumented immigrants.

The caveat that isn’t widely spoken about is that 57% of people ICE arrested in California last month had clean criminal records, and when you run out of actual dangerous criminals, you expand the definition of dangerous.

The Expansion of "Dangerous"

This past June, ICE made 2,801 arrests across California. Most had no criminal record beyond existing while poor or foreign.

As the pool of actual criminals shrinks, the hunt expands:

• Immigrants without criminal records

• Homeless Americans with "sleeping in public" violations

• Anyone deemed a "domestic terrorist" for opposing the regime

  • From student protests to future “No Kings” protests

The concerning strategy about civil commitment is that they don't need criminal charges to sweep you off the street. You just need someone in authority to decide you're "unable to care for yourself."

And in an economy designed to make basic survival impossible for millions, that's a lot of people.

The Real Plan

The Trump regime isn't interested in solving homelessness. They're interested in solving the visibility of homelessness.

Their agenda is observable and unsettling:

• Cut housing programs

• Criminalize survival behaviors

• Force mass detention without trial

• Build facilities with no oversight in remote locations

  • If you protest these facilities, you could be labeled a terrorist

• Call it "treatment" and "public safety"

They're not building treatment centers because treatment isn't the goal. Kidnapping and elimination of Americans who disturb the city’s visual appeal, or criticize the regime, is the goal.

Realistically, the 770,000 homeless Americans aren't merely a policy problem to solve. These Americans are the evidence of systemic failure. However, rather than addressing the circumstances that lead to unhoused Americans in the first place, the regime decided that they need to be hidden from public view.

What This Really Means

When you can't house people, you warehouse them. When you can't treat them, you disappear them. When you can't solve the problem, you eliminate the people who represent the problem.

The vacant homes exist. The resources exist. The knowledge exists.

What doesn't exist is the political and social will to admit that homelessness is a policy and a capitalistic choice, more so than personal failure.

The Choice

So here's your choice: accept that 770,000 Americans are about to be gradually disappeared into detention facilities with no oversight, no treatment, and no timeline for release.

Or recognize that in a system where poverty is criminalized and survival is illegal, they will eventually come for everyone who can't afford to hide their struggles, becoming a victim of a system that will only protect those who have enough, criminalizing those who do not.

The numbers don't lie. We have no meaningful and functional infrastructure for treatment. There's no plan for adequate housing. There's no intention to solve homelessness.

Math doesn't lie. Politicians do.

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~Z.