FILE - Makeshift shelters on a sidewalk in Los Angeles, California, US, on Thursday, May 29, 2025. (Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that aims to provide resources for cities and states to remove homeless people from the streets.
Long-term treatment for the homeless
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The new order, dubbed the "Ending Vagrancy and Restoring Order," will allow local and state authorities to relocate homeless people from encampments and into rehabilitation, treatment and other facilities.
The order aims to shift federal funding away from longtime policies that sought to get homeless people into housing first, and then offer treatment.
It instead calls for using money on programs that require sobriety and treatment, and for cities that enforce homeless camping bans.
Crack down on drug use, crime
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The order also allows states access to grants to better crack down on open illicit drug use, loitering and squatting, and to track sex offenders.
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"Shifting homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment through the appropriate use of civil commitment will restore public order." the order said.
The Source: Information for this article was taken from an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on July 24, 2025. Reporting by The Hill, USA Today and Newsweek also contributed.