Today, Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost (FL-10) joined Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), Congressman Troy Carter (LA-02), Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), and Congresswoman Delia Ramirez (IL-03), along with Eric Tars of the National Homeless Law Center, Setareh Gandehari, Advocacy Director, Detention Watch Network, and Wesley Thomas, Guest Advisory Board Member, Miriam’s Kitchen to announce his No Homeless Detention Centers Act, legislation to stop federal housing dollars from being used to force people experiencing homelessness into detention-like facilities or subject them to forced labor.
I will stop federal housing dollars from being used to force people experiencing homelessness into detention-like facilities or subject them to forced labor.
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legislation to stop federal housing dollars from being used to force people experiencing homelessness into detention-like facilities or subject them to forced labor.
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introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services
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compel a person residing in a facility designated for housing or sheltering homeless persons to provide labor
Assessments
The verified commitment is an outcome promise to stop federal housing dollars from being used for detention-like homeless facilities or forced labor. Verified evidence shows Frost introduced H.R. 10231 and that it was referred to the House Financial Services Committee, with bill text addressing compelled labor, but there is no verified evidence that the bill was enacted or that the promised funding prohibition took effect. Because this is effort toward the promised outcome without enacted delivery and no deadline has expired, the status is unresolved.