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"To glimpse the future of homelessness policy in the age of President Trump,
consider 16 acres of scrubby pasture on the outskirts of Salt Lake City where
the state plans to place as many as 1,300 homeless people in what supporters
call a services campus and critics deem a detention camp.
State planners say the site, announced last month after a secretive search,
will treat addiction and mental illness and provide a humane alternative to the
streets, where afflictions often go untreated and people die at alarming rates.
They also vow stern measures to move homeless people to the remote site and
force many of them to undergo treatment, reflecting a nationwide push by some
conservatives for a new approach to homelessness, one embraced and promoted by
Mr. Trump.
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 court-ordered civil
commitment and the effort will include an “accountability center” for those
with addictions.
“An accountability center is involuntary, OK — you’re not coming in and out,”
Randy Shumway, chairman of the state Homeless Services Board, said in an
interview. Utah will end a harmful “culture of permissiveness,” he said, and
guide homeless people “towards human thriving.”"
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Via Susan ****, who wrote "Here come more camps"
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