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A Utah official vowed that the state would better track homeless deaths. Here’s what the first-ever study found.

The state’s first homeless mortality report found that 216 people who died while experiencing homelessness last year — and that number is likely an undercount.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Homeless people drag their belongings across Victory Road as authorities clear an encampment in the area on Thursday, December 14, 2023. Utah's first ever homeless mortality report found unsheltered people are dying at 10 times the rate of housed people.