"The Attorney General, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and the Secretary of Transportation shall take immediate steps to assess their discretionary grant programs and determine whether priority for those grants may be given to grantees in States and municipalities that actively meet the below criteria, to the maximum extent permitted by law:"
"(iv) enforce, and where necessary, adopt, standards that address individuals who are a danger to themselves or others and suffer from serious mental illness or substance use disorder, or who are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves, through assisted outpatient treatment or by moving them into treatment centers or other appropriate facilities via civil commitment or other available means, to the maximum extent permitted by law ..."
Mayor Daniel Lurie is pursuing a forced "sobering center" to detain and sober people using drugs. Evidence indicates forced sobriety programs are largely ineffective, while supervised consumption sites reduce harm. Current city approaches to the unhoused align with a federal directive that conditions discretionary grants on strict enforcement of open drug use, camping, loitering, and squatting prohibitions. The directive calls for assisted outpatient treatment or civil commitment for individuals judged dangerous or unable to care for themselves, and urges funding be restricted away from programs deemed to facilitate illegal drug use, including some harm-reduction efforts.
Read at 48 hills
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]