‘It beats being out there’: Homeless Utahns find warmth, help and hope as SLC’s first legal camp opens
Officials expect all 25 pods to fill up this week as unsheltered individuals escape the cold.
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The interior of a unit at Salt Lake City’s first legal homeless camp on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023.
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.