"People need homes, not handcuffs; health care, not institutionalization; and above all, compassion, not criminality," said Maxine Waters.

The order, called “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” attempts to defund “housing first” and “harm reduction” approaches to homelessness. Both strategies have played heavily in Mayor Mike Johnston’s housing efforts in Denver, and many researchers say they are backed by evidence.

The National Coalition for Homeless Veterans is objecting to an executive order by President Donald Trump that directs state and local officials to forcibly move people living on the streets into long-term “institutional settings.

City leaders and homelessness advocates across West Michigan are reacting with caution to a new executive order signed by President Donald Trump.

President Trump's executive order on homelessness aims to make it easier for states and cities to get people into mental health or addiction treatment, even if that means involuntary civil commitment.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at requiring cities to take a more muscular approach to homelessness, mental illness and drug use.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would make it easier for local law enforcement to remove homeless individuals from the streets.

Two advocates for homeless people join “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” to weigh in on President Trump’s new executive order that is designed to get mentally ill or drug-using homeless people off the streets.