Key Utah lawmaker calls proposed Salt Lake City homeless campus an ‘internment camp’

Discussions around the role of the planned 1,300-bed facility and how to fund it are ongoing.

A rendering shows buildings and a parking lot surrounded by trees and green fields just off of a road.

(Utah Office of Homeless Services) A conceptual rendering shows what the planned homeless campus could look like in Salt Lake City.

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