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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

#Utah already has a severe shortage of #psychiatric beds, she noted. The #legislature is unlikely to fund hundreds of new beds, & even if it did, there is no work force to staff them.

Without enormous new spending, she said, the center could function less as a treatment facility than “a prison or a warehouse.”

The emerging portrait of the center, scheduled to open in 2027, brings to life a vow that #Trump made 2 years ago in an extraordinary campaign video.

#law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps

Critics of the new plan say that confining people to a site on the city’s outskirts threatens #CivilLiberties & warn that the promised services may not materialize. The efforts coincide with deep cuts to #Medicaid, which could thwart the project’s financing.

“I’m super anxious about it,” said Jen Plumb, a physician & Democratic state senator who calls the promise of high-quality #medical care “pie in the sky.”

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

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

“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

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

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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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

“Utah approves internment camps for homeless people”

by Skwawkbox with The Canary @thecanaryuk

@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCNews
@guardian @Independent @thetimes @newyorktimes @miamiherald

“The US state of Utah has this week approved a ‘mega camp’ to hold 1,300 homeless people – in isolation, seven miles from the nearest town and with no transport links”

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/10/30/utah-homeless-people/

#Press #US #Utah #Homeless #InternmentCamp #MegaCamp #ForcedLabour #Gulag #UK #Starmer #Refugees #FarRight

“Utah approves internment camps for homeless people”

by Skwawkbox with The Canary @thecanaryuk

@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCNews
@guardian @Independent @thetimes @newyorktimes @miamiherald

“The US state of Utah has this week approved a ‘mega camp’ to hold 1,300 homeless people – in isolation, seven miles from the nearest town and with no transport links”

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/10/30/utah-homeless-people/

#Press #US #Utah #Homeless #InternmentCamp #MegaCamp #ForcedLabour #Gulag #UK #Starmer #Refugees #FarRight

#Utah #homelessness #CultureOfCruelty

https://www.rawstory.com/amp/trump-homeless-2674244434

#Utah #homelessness #CultureOfCruelty

https://www.rawstory.com/amp/trump-homeless-2674244434

Uh on now you've made the Linux nerds mad

#NoKings #Utah

Uh on now you've made the Linux nerds mad

#NoKings #Utah

A lot of people showed up at #NoKings #Utah

Root canals gone wrong. A dental implant lost inside a sinus cavity. Months of antibiotics for infections.

Utah dentist Nicholas LaFeber, his colleagues warned, was harming his patients. The state has allowed him to continue practicing anyway.
https://www.propublica.org/article/utah-dentist-license-nicholas-lafeber?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Utah #Health #Dentist #License #Regulation

Keep ‘em coming

“WIN: The #Utah Supreme Court has refused to bail out and revive the GOP legislatures’ gerrymandered congressional map.

The 2021 map stays blocked and lawmakers must present a new, fairer map by Sept. 25.”

https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/utah-congressional-redistricting-challenge/

Keep ‘em coming

“WIN: The #Utah Supreme Court has refused to bail out and revive the GOP legislatures’ gerrymandered congressional map.

The 2021 map stays blocked and lawmakers must present a new, fairer map by Sept. 25.”

https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/utah-congressional-redistricting-challenge/

And yes, zoning is of course a powerful tool to block needed improvements, enforce scarcity and super charge inflation. I spend most of my time thinking about housing, but this is becoming increasingly relevant in the energy space as federal, state and local government actors race to shut down a variety of needed energy projects planned or underway, including #solar . I like Bill’s idea of legalizing balcony solar as #Utah has done

"The WSJ, Nancy Mace, and Republicans owe the transgender community, and the rest of us, an apology for trying to incite their base to commit violence against 'the left.'"

~ Wajahat Ali

#CharlieKirk#Trump#TylerRobinson#Utah#Mormon#MAGA#Republican #trans
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/charlie-kirks-alleged-shooter-is