Katie McKellar

(Utah News Dispatch) As the vision for a new, 1,300-bed homeless “campus” recently sited in northwest Salt Lake City begins to crystalize, a discussion in front of a panel of lawmakers this week showed that the state’s top homeless services leaders see it as a key component to the state’s response to President Donald Trump’s July controversial executive order titled “ Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets .”

To do so, they’re proposing the campus not only include additional homeless shelter, but also hundreds more beds to expand the state’s capacity for involuntary civil commitment and drug addiction treatment.

Under a yet-to-be-approved proposal drafted by Randy Shumway, chair of the Utah Homeless Services Board, the campus would include a “certified c

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