Here’s how SLC is trying to prevent large homeless camps
Rapid intervention team tries to send people into shelters and services early on — but sometimes those options are full as well.
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) A couple living on the bank of the Jordan River in Cottonwood Park in August. Salt Lake City deploys a rapid intervention team to try to get people into shelters and services.
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.
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.