Executive Order 14321

Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets

Signed 2025-07-24 in effect
HomelessnessPublic SafetyMental HealthCivil Commitment
Law & Justice

Sets a federal strategy on homelessness and public disorder, encouraging the involuntary civil commitment of homeless individuals with mental-illness or substance-use disorders, redirecting federal funding toward treatment over housing-first approaches, and supporting enforcement of vagrancy, camping, and squatting laws.

Section by Section

What each section does, and how they differ.

Sec. 1 Purpose

Addresses homelessness, substance use, and disorder through evidence-based treatment and accountability measures.

Sec. 2 Redirecting Federal Resources

Directs Health and Human Services and other agencies to prioritize treatment and housing-focused approaches over harm-reduction programs for homelessness and substance use.

Sec. 3 Supporting Community Safety

Requires coordination among federal, state, and local law enforcement to address public-order crime and support community policing efforts.

Sec. 4 Redirecting Federal Resources Toward Effective Methods of Addressing Homelessness

Orders HHS to ensure grants support evidence-based programs and to provide technical assistance for treatment programs, and directs DOJ to fund drug and mental health courts.

Sec. 5 Increasing Accountability and Safety in America's Homelessness Programs

Directs HUD and HHS to end housing-first policies that deprioritize accountability, increase grantee competition, and hold recipients to higher effectiveness standards.