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Unclear How Trump Order Urging States to Involuntarily Commit Homeless People Will Affect Oregon
UNITED STATES, JUL 24 – The order prioritizes civil commitment for mentally ill homeless people and shifts federal funding away from housing-first policies, citing a record 274,224 homeless individuals last year.
- On Thursday, July 24, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that makes it easier for states and cities to remove outdoor encampments and directs placement into treatment.
- Last year’s high court decision allowed cities to punish people sleeping outdoors, the Trump administration stated a record 274,224 homeless in 2024, and Oregon recently eased civil commitment laws.
- Under the order, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will defund addiction harm reduction programs, while federal grants will favor enforcement of homelessness and vagrancy bans.
- Critics say, `institutionalizing homeless mentally ill individuals is not a dignified, safe, or evidence-based way to serve people’s needs`, and the order will disrupt overdose-prevention programs.
- Members of Trump’s Cabinet will assess grant programs targeting drug use, urban camping, loitering and squatting, which could help the country recover from a growing homelessness epidemic but may backfire in its civil commitment provisions.
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What Trump's order on clearing encampments, forced hospitalization means for the unhoused
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Unclear how Trump order urging states to involuntarily commit homeless people will affect Oregon
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order making it easier to remove people who are homeless from the streets as part of a set of policies the administration said would make America safer.
President Trump Signs Homeless Executive Order
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CA A.G.: We Need to Move Homeless to Treatment Like Trump Order Does, Order that Isn't Humane Is Wrong
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) responded to President Donald Trump’s executive order on homelessness to make it easier for state and local governments to move the homeless into rehab centers by saying The post CA A.G.: We Need to Move Homeless to Treatment Like Trump Order Does, Order that Isn’t Humane Is Wrong appeared first on Breitbart.
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