{"id":44873,"date":"2025-11-03T12:54:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=44873"},"modified":"2025-11-03T12:54:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:54:37","slug":"advocates-warn-of-forced-labor-camp-for-homeless-people-in-utah-designed-to-enforce-trump-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/11\/03\/advocates-warn-of-forced-labor-camp-for-homeless-people-in-utah-designed-to-enforce-trump-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocates Warn of \u2018Forced Labor\u2019 Camp for Homeless People in Utah Designed to Enforce Trump Order"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A conceptual rendering of Utah\u2019s planned homeless services campus north of Salt Lake City, published on September 3, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0(Image from the Utah Office of Homeless Services)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An advocate for the National Homelessness Law Center warned that the 1,300-bed facility could be a \u201cpilot\u201d to put homeless people into similar conditions to Florida\u2019s \u201cAlligator Alcatraz.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Prager<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oct 28, 2025 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an effort to fulfill President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order on homelessness<\/a>, Utah<\/a> is building a massive facility that housing<\/a> advocates warn will function as an \u201cinternment camp\u201d where the unhoused will be subject to forced labor<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month, Utah\u2019s homeless services agencies came to an agreement<\/a> for the state to acquire a nearly 16-acre parcel of rural land in the Northpoint area of northwest Salt Lake City to construct the first-of-its-kind facility, which is slated to have 1,300 beds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The genesis of the project began in July, following Trump\u2019s \u201cEnding Crime and Disorder on America\u2019s Streets\u201d executive order, which threatened<\/a> to withhold funding from states and cities unless they criminalized homeless people camping on streets and ordered the attorney general to expand the use of involuntary civil commitment for adults experiencing homelessness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite a large body<\/a> of evidence showing their effectiveness at curbing crime while keeping people off the street, the order also required the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to end its support of \u201cHousing First\u201d policies that provide unhoused people with homes without the requirement of behavioral health treatment or sobriety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than a week after Trump\u2019s homelessness order, Utah\u2019s Republican Gov. Spencer Cox, as well as the state Senate president and House speaker\u2014both Republicans\u2014sent a letter<\/a> to the state\u2019s Homeless Services Board, which was created last year following a legislative push by the Cicero Insitute\u2014a far-right think tank that has proposed<\/a> aggressive measures to criminalize homelessness and which has had major influence<\/a> over Trump\u2019s crackdown on the homeless during his second term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the letter, the leaders agreed with the\u00a0Trump administration<\/a>\u00a0that they \u201cdo not support \u2018Housing First\u2019 policies that lack accountability.\u201d They directed the Board to \u201caccelerate progress on a transformative, services-based homeless campus that prioritizes recovery, treatment, and long-term outcomes, not just emergency shelter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Utah just approved a 1,300-person \u201cmega camp\u201d for homeless people \u2014 seven miles from town, no transportation, locked units, and even forced labor. They call it \u201cwork-conditioned housing.\u201d We call it what it is: modern-day internment.

In this clip, Eric Tars from the National\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/9Tq4wFEHhr<\/a><\/p>— Invisible People \u27a4 Imagine Everyone With a Home (@invisiblepeople) October 26, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>