Overview
- Wayne Niederhauser will step down on Dec. 5, 2025, and Assistant State Homeless Coordinator Nick Coleman will lead the Office of Homeless Services in the interim.
- Clancy, a 28-year-old Provo police detective and Republican lawmaker, said he will leave the Legislature and his police job before starting on March 9, 2026.
- The Homeless Services Board has recommended a services-based campus near the Salt Lake City airport, with options including a substance treatment wing and 300 mental and behavioral health beds.
- Critics have compared possible non-voluntary treatment elements to a prison, a characterization Clancy rejected as “beyond absurd.”
- State data released in August counted more than 4,500 Utahns experiencing homelessness in 2025, an 18% annual increase with chronic and vulnerable populations rising.