Ledger · 2024 campaign · № 170

Build federal 'tent cities' with doctors and social workers

Never delivered
“[paraphrase] We will open up large parcels of inexpensive land, bring in doctors, psychiatrists, social workers and drug rehab specialists, and create tent cities where the homeless can be relocated.”
Promised
, Agenda 47 policy video on ending the homeless crisis
Re-promised
5 times with a fresh deadline
Topic
Other
Era
2024 campaign

What happened

No federally supported tent city with services has been created. PolitiFact found that 11 months into the term the administration had shifted to enforcement instead: a July 24, 2025 executive order focused on clearing encampments from public spaces and expanding forced treatment and civil commitment, without the promised medical and rehabilitation infrastructure.

Sources

  1. MAGA-Meter: Create 'tent cities' where the homeless can be moved PolitiFact, Dec 18, 2025
  2. Trump admin takes away rights from homeless veterans; ignores causes of and solutions to homelessness National Homelessness Law Center, Mar 11, 2026