He emphasized that it hasn’t been presented to or approved by the Utah Homeless Services Board, which is a powerful body that oversees the state’s homeless system and distributes funding to homeless providers. That shortage remains acute today, and even if the state homeless campus is built to accommodate 300 or 400 more civil commitment beds, there would still be hundreds more lacking, barring a major expansion elsewhere in the system. “That probably leaves at least 1,000 people currently under civil commitment on the streets,” he said. “So while I don’t disagree that applying civil commitment is a critical tool, currently our system is completely overwhelmed where people that are on civil commitment are not, in the vast majority of cases, receiving inpatient services. Tibbitts also worried about a possible chilling effect by building a civil commitment facility in proximity to homeless shelter beds.