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Federal court halts the funding for Gov. Cox’s proposed “central campus” for Utah’s homeless.

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Hit: Lock ‘Em Up We can’t say we’re sorry to see federal funding evaporate for the homeless campus that the governor envisions. Spencer Cox was counting on money for a forced asylum of the unhoused, euphemistically called a “central campus.” But a federal judge temporarily blocked one of the president’s daily dribble Executive Orders that took some $4 billion from Housing First grants.

We’ve talked about Housing First before, although Donald Trump is now calling it a failed approach. Sure, it’s not a perfect solution, maybe because mental health is a moving target.

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