You can find footage of President Donald Trump weighing in on just about any issue other than homelessness. Yet an increasing number of economists have raised the issue of whether Trump’s budget cuts to the social safety net have led to a jump in the number of homeless people in America’s richest cities unseen since President Ronald Reagan employed similar cost-cutting measures in the 1980s. On this week's TrumpWatch, Esme Deprez, co-author of the Bloomberg Businessweek article “The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities,” explores what effect Trump administration policies are having to exacerbate the epidemic of homelessness in the most prosperous of the nation’s urban centers.
