MAHONING COUNTY, Ohio - President Donald Trump's latest executive order aims to decrease the amount of homeless people on the streets. 

The order now removes limits to commit individuals on the streets who are deemed to be a risk to themselves or others. It also puts funding towards areas that ban urban camping and loitering. 

Mahoning County has a small street homeless problem and typically doesn’t see large encampments. Surveyors from the county’s Homeless Continuum of Care Program walk the county streets and back allies in January every year to find those that need help and connect them with shelters.

“We’re pretty constantly finding about 30 people for the past few years,” Colleen Kosta, the Coordinator for the Mahoning County Homeless Continuum of Care said. “From [20]22 to [20]23 we did see a big increase of about 18 percent.”

Even though the executive order may not change things in Mahoning County it could have an effect on bigger cities like Pittsburgh, Akron and Cleveland which typically have higher street homeless problems.

Multiple organizations like the National Homelessness Law Center oppose the executive order saying it will make things worse where the problems lie. 

"Criminalizing homelessness displaces people from their communities, makes it harder for them to access housing and makes it harder for us to end homelessness as a community,” Jesse Rabinowitz from the National Homelessness Law Center said. 

Both the NHLC and local officials say what will really help homelessness is providing more affordable housing. 

“The number one cause of homelessness is the sky high cost of rent,” Rabinowitz said “More and more people are struggling to pay rent which means more and more people are sleeping outside.”

“We would need to right size our community for how many people we have in our community and looking at needs of those people that need housing and making sure we have enough units for people to go,” Kosta said.