The New York Post reports President Trump has signed an executive order today concerning the homeless. Bravo.
President Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling on states and cities to end “endemic vagrancy” — and rehouse homeless people including drug addicts and those suffering from mental problems in “treatment centers.”
The order redirects federal funding to prioritize “shifting homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment through the appropriate use of civil commitment.”
COTTonLINE has long complained about our national failure to involuntarily house and treat the mentally ill and the addicted. Obviously, many homeless individuals are both.
A web search shows we first wrote about this problem in 2007, four months after beginning this blog. While I have some libertarian impulses, I draw the line at letting the mentally ill live on the streets, 'treating' their conditions with street drugs and polluting the public square.
