‘No more avoiding it’: As calls for sanctioned homeless camps in Salt Lake City grow, Mendenhall resists
Could legal homeless encampments clean up the Jordan River? West-side council members think so.
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Thomas Alvarado, 40, who grew up in Rose Park, now lives just a few blocks away at an encampment in Cottonwood Park, Monday, Aug. 1, 2022.
Blake joined The Tribune in March 2022 to cover city and county government before becoming an editor in 2024. He is a University of Minnesota graduate who started his journalism career in Las Vegas, where he covered local government, state politics and the depletion of the Colorado River. He is dad to a Golden Retriever named Woodward.
Alixel Cabrera is a Report for America corps member and writes about communities on the west side of the Salt Lake Valley for The Salt Lake Tribune. She has reported on the economy, energy, food and culture for newspapers and websites in Venezuela and the U.S.