Readers Respond: Executive Order Targets Disabled, Unhoused
UNITED STATES, JUL 24 – The order incentivizes states to forcibly remove homeless encampments and mandates civil commitment for those with mental illness or substance use, affecting over 274,000 homeless people, officials said.
- On July 24, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order incentivizing states and cities to purge encampments and force unhoused people into treatment programs.
- In recent years, the administration plans to challenge judicial precedents and support crackdowns on urban camping and drug use, as momentum for forced institutionalization has grown.
- The executive order states that SAMHSA grants no longer fund syringe service programs or overdose prevention centers, explicitly rejecting proven harm reduction efforts.
- Following the signing last week, critics decried the order as cruel, ineffective, and harmful to public health efforts, including HIV prevention, according to advocates like Laura Guzman and experts.
- Assessing the order's fallout, KCRHA is evaluating impacts ahead of HUD’s FY2025 CoC NOFO, which will clarify effects of the executive order signed on July 24, 2025.
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Readers respond: Executive order targets disabled, unhoused
As someone honored by the opportunity to volunteer with a group that provides resources and a path to housing for unhoused folks, President Donald Trump’s new executive order horrified me, (“Unclear how Trump order urging states to involuntarily commit homeless people will affect Oregon,” July 25).
Critics Push Back on Trump’s New Homelessness Directive - Here's the Truth
President Trump signed an executive order to combat rising homelessness and public disorder in U.S. cities. The plan focuses on moving homeless individuals with mental illness or addiction into long-term treatment facilities, redirecting funds to rehabilitation programs, and encouraging cities to end open drug use and street camping. Key Facts: President Trump issued an executive order on July 24 titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s S…
‘Very alarming.’ Ohio housing advocates decry Trump’s executive order on homelessness
(Stock photo by Paul Bradbury/Getty Images) Ohio housing advocates spoke out against President Donald Trump’s recent executive order that would force those experiencing homelessness off the streets by committing them to mental health institutions or drug treatment centers without their consent. Trump issued an executive order last week titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets.” GET THE MORNING HEADLINES. SUBSCRIBE “Shifting homel…
Letter from the editor: Responding to Trump’s anti-homeless executive order
When I was a homeless teenager, another young girl was set on fire under a bridge as she slept a few blocks away from my camp. I think about her every time there is a sweep, every time new legislation further criminalizes poverty and when the Supreme Court chose to protect the rights of the city of Grants Pass over the rights and humanity of actual people.
Trump’s “Sick” Executive Order Targets Unhoused People and Harm Reduction
On July 24, President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order that allows—and incentivizes—states and cities to purge encampments of unhoused people, and force them into mental health or drug treatment facilities against their will. The order compounds this by directly attacking harm reduction services that protect vulnerable people. In the name of “ending vagrancy and restoring order,” Trump’s directive promises to “remove vagrant indivi…
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