Hiding the Homeless (Wellness Farms)
There’s a move underway — across political lines — to send the mentally ill, homeless people somewhere else. Essentially, it seems to be a movement towards re-institutionalizing people we would rather not see walking around aimlessly.
In some communities like Los Angeles, the emphasis seems to be on the rising number of homeless people. In New York, there’s a tendency for officialdom to equate public mental illness cases with crimes on the street or in the subways.
Donald Trump has made it plain that if he can see homeless people around Washington, he believes the city is reflecting some kind of third-world values rather than seeing increased homelessness as a more logical outcome of economic and social policies that favor property owners and upward mobility.
In short, we’re seeing more proposals to move the homeless away from where they can be seen as if parking them somewhere will put the problems out of mind.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr is pushing a proposal for “wellness farms” under his Make America Healthy Again (Maha) initiative to gather the homeless. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul promotes expanding involuntary commitment, New York City Mayor Eric Adams has directed police and emergency responders to hospitalize people deemed “mentally ill”, even without signs of imminent danger. In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Care courts compel people into court-ordered “treatment” while in Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass is building new apartments but losing a public relations war on spreading homelessness.
https://www.dcreport.org/2025/05/11/hiding-the-homeless/
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