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@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 18 hours ago

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In #Utah, #Trump’s Vision for #Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

The proposed site where Utah plans to place as many as 1,300 homeless people outside of Salt Lake City.

State officials promise large-scale #involuntary #addiction & #MentalHealth treatment at Salt Lake City’s edge. Critics see “a prison, or a warehouse.”

#law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/us/politics/utah-trump-homeless-campus.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xU8.-Nd0.pGnMZllHXOAG&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 18 hours ago

To glimpse the future #homelessness #policy in the age of #Trump, consider 16 acres of scrubby pasture on the outskirts of #SaltLakeCity where #Utah plans to place as many as 1,300 #homeless people in what supporters call a services campus & critics a #DetentionCamp.

State planners say the site, announced last month after a secretive search, will treat addiction & mental illness & provide a humane alternative to the streets, where afflictions often go untreated & people die at alarming rates.

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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 18 hours ago

They also vow *stern* measures to move #homeless people to the remote site & #force many of them to undergo treatment, reflecting a nationwide push by some #conservatives for a new approach to #homelessness, one embraced & promoted by #Trump.

#law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 18 hours ago

With outdoor sleeping banned, removal to the edge of town may become the only way some #homeless Utahns can avoid #jail. Planners say the facility will also hold hundreds of mentally ill homeless people under #CourtOrdered civil commitment & the effort will include an “accountability center” for those with addictions.

#Trump #law #unhoused #Utah #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

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@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 18 hours ago

“An accountability center is #involuntary, OK — you’re not coming in & out,” Randy Shumway, chairman of the state #Homeless Services Board, said in an interview. #Utah will end a harmful “culture of permissiveness,” he said, & guide homeless people “towards human thriving.”
[sure, Jan.]

#Trump #law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 18 hours ago

While the #Utah effort began before Trump’s return to office, it mirrors his pledge to move the #homeless from urban cores to “tent cities” with *services*. And it accelerated after #Trump issued an EO in July, calling for strict camping bans & expanded power to #involuntarily treat homeless people.

#law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

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