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Trump wants to make it easier to institutionalize some homeless people. How will that play out in LA?

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom

Published July 30, 2025 at 10:49 AM CDT

Tents are set up along a freeway in a homeless encampment, May 12, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Damian Dovarganes/AP)

Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with Los Angeles homelessness expert John Maceri about a recent presidential executive order that calls for sending some mentally ill or addicted homeless people into involuntary treatment, known as civil commitment.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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