# 2025-14391: President Mandates Involuntary Treatment to Tame Urban Homeless Chaos 2025-14391, Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets, is a Federal Register presidential document from Executive Office of the President published 2025-07-29, effective 2025-07-24 (as of 2026-11-04). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-14391 - As of: 2026-11-04 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Document number: 2025-14391 - Title: Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets - Type: Presidential Document - Agencies: Executive Office of the President - Citation: 90 FR 35817 - Published: 2025-07-29 - Effective: 2025-07-24 - Comments close: not stated - Significant: no - Touches household money: no - Regulation identifier numbers: none - Last updated: 2026-11-04 ## In one line President Mandates Involuntary Treatment to Tame Urban Homeless Chaos ## Summary The government is stepping up to make America’s streets safer by helping homeless people with serious drug and mental health issues get long-term care in special facilities. This new plan focuses on protecting everyone by using civil commitment laws more strongly, aiming to reduce crime and disorder quickly. States and cities will get support to make these changes happen starting now, with big funding shifts to back this fresh approach. ## Effects PRIA read - Federal push to expand civil commitment: cost, high. On July 24, 2025 the President ordered a Federal push to expand civil commitment of people with serious mental illness or substance use disorder who are living on the streets or pose dangers. The Order directs the Attorney General and HHS to seek reversal of court precedents and termination of cons… - Grant priority tied to anti-camping and drug enforcement: mixed, medium. Federal agencies will assess discretionary grant programs and may give priority to States and cities that enforce prohibitions on open drug use, urban camping, loitering, and squatting or that adopt aggressive civil-commitment or assisted outpatient treatment standards. The Order says this prioriti… - Funding and legal support for encampment removals: cost, high. The Attorney General is directed to make Emergency Federal Law Enforcement Assistance funds available to support encampment removal where public safety is at risk and local resources are inadequate. The Order also directs assessment of federal resources to prevent detainees with serious mental illn… - SAMHSA grants to exclude harm-reduction sites: cost, medium. The Secretary of Health and Human Services is directed to ensure SAMHSA grants fund evidence-based substance use programs and not fund so-called "harm reduction" or "safe consumption" efforts that the Order says only facilitate illegal drug use. HHS is also directed to provide technical assistance… - HUD to deprioritize "housing first" and enforce treatment rules: cost, high. The Order directs HUD to end support for "housing first" policies that the Administration says deprioritize accountability and to require recipients of Federal housing and homelessness assistance to increase requirements that participants with substance use disorder or serious mental illness use tr… - Health-data collection and sharing with law enforcement: cost, medium. HUD, in consultation with DOJ and HHS, is directed to allow or require recipients of Federal homelessness funding to collect health-related information identified by HUD and to share that data with law enforcement as permitted by law. The Order also directs using collected health data to provide me… - Priority expansion of drug and mental health courts: benefit, medium. The Attorney General is directed to prioritize funding to expand drug courts and mental health courts as diversion options for individuals when such diversion serves public safety. 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