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July 29, 2025
\nContact: Beth Swedeen (608) 220-2924; beth.swedeen@wisconsin.gov<\/p>\n
BPDD Statement on Federal Executive Order on Homelessness that Impacts People with Disabilities
\nThe Wisconsin Board for People with Developmental Disabilities opposes the July 24 federal Executive Order order calling on federal agencies to prioritize funding for cities and states that adopt or enforce laws targeting unhoused individuals and those with visible mental health or substance use conditions. It encourages policies that expand involuntary treatment and restrict a housing-first approach that has a proven track record of reducing homelessness. BPDD also is concerned that the order directs federal agencies to collect data on people experiencing homelessness.<\/p>\n
This Executive Order is rooted in old ideas and assumptions that take us back to outdated policies that were abandoned for good reason.<\/p>\n
This Order shows a lack of understanding of who is homeless. The fastest growing homeless populations are older adults and families, many of them experiencing homelessness for the first time. People with disabilities are overly represented. Why? People on fixed incomes cannot absorb rising housing costs, and the lack of age-appropriate or accessible affordable housing. (citation https:\/\/endhomelessness.org\/state-of-homelessness\/)<\/p>\n
Forcibly taking away people\u2019s rights and putting them into institutions is not effective, it\u2019s not treatment, and it doesn\u2019t change the underlying causes of homelessness.<\/p>\n
People with Intellectual Disabilities have lived experience of what mass institutionalization as a policy approach means to individuals, families, and to communities. It is not a solution. It creates new problems.
\nBPDD is concerned this action will further harm people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I\/DD), especially those who also experience mental health disabilities. The action increases the risk of institutionalization, surveillance, and criminalization for people who need access to community-based supports, not punishment. Forced treatment and expanded policing do not address the root causes of disability-related housing instability or address the national crisis in housing affordability.<\/p>\n
Download the statement here: BPDD_Statement_EO_Disabilities and Homelessness<\/a>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> July 29, 2025 Contact: Beth Swedeen (608) 220-2924; beth.swedeen@wisconsin.gov BPDD Statement on Federal Executive Order on Homelessness that Impacts People with Disabilities The Wisconsin Board for People with Developmental Disabilities opposes the July 24 federal Executive Order order calling on federal agencies to prioritize funding for cities and states that adopt or enforce laws […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"\r\n\r\nJuly 29, 2025\r\nContact: Beth Swedeen (608) 220-2924; beth.swedeen@wisconsin.gov\r\n\r\nBPDD Statement on Federal Executive Order on Homelessness that Impacts People with Disabilities\r\nThe Wisconsin Board for People with Developmental Disabilities opposes the July 24 federal Executive Order order calling on federal agencies to prioritize funding for cities and states that adopt or enforce laws targeting unhoused individuals and those with visible mental health or substance use conditions. It encourages policies that expand involuntary treatment and restrict a housing-first approach that has a proven track record of reducing homelessness. BPDD also is concerned that the order directs federal agencies to collect data on people experiencing homelessness.\r\n\r\nThis Executive Order is rooted in old ideas and assumptions that take us back to outdated policies that were abandoned for good reason.\r\n\r\nThis Order shows a lack of understanding of who is homeless. The fastest growing homeless populations are older adults and families, many of them experiencing homelessness for the first time. People with disabilities are overly represented. Why? People on fixed incomes cannot absorb rising housing costs, and the lack of age-appropriate or accessible affordable housing. (citation https:\/\/endhomelessness.org\/state-of-homelessness\/)\r\n\r\nForcibly taking away people\u2019s rights and putting them into institutions is not effective, it\u2019s not treatment, and it doesn\u2019t change the underlying causes of homelessness.\r\n\r\nPeople with Intellectual Disabilities have lived experience of what mass institutionalization as a policy approach means to individuals, families, and to communities. It is not a solution. It creates new problems.\r\nBPDD is concerned this action will further harm people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I\/DD), especially those who also experience mental health disabilities. The action increases the risk of institutionalization, surveillance, and criminalization for people who need access to community-based supports, not punishment. Forced treatment and expanded policing do not address the root causes of disability-related housing instability or address the national crisis in housing affordability.\r\n\r\nDownload the statement here: BPDD_Statement_EO_Disabilities and Homelessness<\/a>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature","category-news","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16258,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16083\/revisions\/16258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}