Letter To The President: Access Federal Lands For “New” & “Traditional” Homeless,
LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
“Martin Luther King, Jr. Foretold and Saw Our Day”
July 2025
To: The Honorable Donald J. Trump
47th President of the United States of America
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear President Trump,
We, the undersigned citizens—houseless, homeless, and landless—appeal to you with hope and expectation.
Displaced by the January 2025 fires in Altadena, Eaton, Pacific Palisades, and Malibu, we represent the “New Homeless,” standing in unity with the long-suffering “Traditional Homeless.” We urge you to fulfill your promise to allocate suitable federal lands for 21st-century housing through EXODUS II: 2028, LA Olympics Homeless Resolution Initiative.
This national humanitarian effort—anchored by Justiceville (Los Angeles), LIRM (Love Is Real Movement, a Black & Jewish Fellowship) of Los Angeles; Holistic Homeless Haven (Dallas), Churches of Christ; and a growing moral coalition—is inspired by the Biblical Exodus: a journey from bondage to promise. Today, our bondage is homelessness. Our Promised Land is dignity, safety, and secure dwelling on land that already belongs to We the People.
The legal and moral precedent is clear. The Homestead Act of 1862, signed by President Lincoln—your acknowledged presidential mentor—opened federal lands to the landless. Yet African Americans, recently freed from chattel slavery, were too impoverished to take part. Though legally eligible, they lacked the means, tools, and resources to claim their rightful stake. Thus, American Africans—U.S.-federalized citizens—were effectively left behind, and many remain so to this day.
This fact is all the more urgent today: while American-Africans comprise only 11–13% of the U.S. population, they represent over 60% of the homeless nationwide. In Los Angeles County—the national homeless capital—they are just 8–9% of the population but account for over 40% of the homeless. On Skid Row, descendants of chattel slavery make up over 90% of the male homeless, followed by the women of the same ancestry.
Your offer of federal land is a momentous opportunity to complete what Lincoln began: to fulfill America’s promise to its most vulnerable, especially those long denied land, security, and belonging.
As such, those of us fire refugees unite with the “Traditional” homeless in our mutual quest for a federal “homeland”, whereby, we together may build new, planned, small towns, villages, etc., to rebirth our lives, and those of our descendant children.
In his immortal “I Have a Dream” speech, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. reminded the federal government of its sacred promissory note—a guarantee of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, once understood to mean home, land, and self-determination. The night before his assassination, he said:
“I’ve been to the mountaintop… I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you… but we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.”
Mr. President, that Promised Land is no longer just a dream or vision. Instead, it is a practical, achievable goal within reach through your leadership and America’s national will.
This sacred matter is highly in your interest, given your strong and correct intentions to emulate President Abraham Lincoln, to be even greater than he was prevented from doing; therefore, this is now your opportunity.
EXODUS II is the way. Land is the answer. Now is the time.
We, the undersigned, are the whirlwind fire refugees of Los Angeles County, and we request and expect you to lead a revival of compassion, justice, and bold resolve.
- To fulfill the promise of this exceptional nation.
- To restore the American Promissory Note Dream.
- To Make America Just Again
With gratitude and determination,
The Undersigned
Justiceville | EXODUS II: 2028 Initiative
https://justiceville.us
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