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Trump order pushes forcible hospitalization of homeless people

Trump’s executive order could increase hospitalization of homeless individuals with mental health and substance use disorders.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that would make it easier to shift homeless people into long-term institutional settings, a move that he said would restore public order. (Astrid Riecken/For The Washington Post)

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that would make it easier to shift homeless people into long-term institutional settings, a move that he said would restore public order. (Astrid Riecken/For The Washington Post)

President Donald Trump has directed federal agencies to find ways to make it easier to forcibly hospitalize homeless people with mental illness and addiction for longer periods — an effort to fight what the administration calls “vagrancy” threatening the streets of U.S. cities.

An executive order signed Thursday pushes federal agencies to overturn state and federal legal precedent that limits how local and state governments can involuntarily commit people who pose a risk to themselves or others.

The order said shifting homeless people into long-term institutional settings will restore public order. “Surrendering our cities and citizens to disorder and fear is neither compassionate to the homeless nor other citizens,” Trump’s order said.

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Source: The Washington Post

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