Utah Gov. Spencer Cox recommitted on Wednesday to the state’s novel proposal to solve chronic homelessness by investing upwards of $100 million in a 30 acre, 1,200-1,600-bed “central campus” near the Salt Lake City Airport.
Cox called funding for the site his “top priority” for the 2026 legislative session during a housing conference at the University of Utah where he pushed back against a New York Times article that cited a source who likened Utah’s campus plan to a Nazi concentration camp.
“This idea that it’s compared to Nazi Germany, I don’t understand that level of thinking, it’s just crazy to me,” Cox said. “As if Hitler were to round up people who were dying on the streets, in their own filth, addicted to drugs and giving them the support they need. There is no comparison at all.”…