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Aug 7, 2025 Trump signed an executive order directing states to criminalize homelessness and permit involuntary institutionalization Tier 1 · Primary Civil Rights and Dissent
The order eliminates housing-first approaches and strips due-process protections for unhoused people, threatening millions with confinement.
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- Trump executive order instructs states to criminalize homelessness and involuntary institutionalization — Donald Trump issued an executive order directing states and municipalities to crack down on unhoused people, public substance use, camping, loitering, and mental health crises in public spaces, with vague language permitting involuntary institutionalization in "long-term institutional settings." The order eliminates housing-first policies, requires sharing of health data with law enforcement, defunds harm-reduction programs, and threatens to restrict federal funding to jurisdictions that do not comply. Experts warn the broad language could criminalize millions and strip due-process protections.
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