(Photo courtesy of Danny Walz) Wasatch Tenants United has called on Danny Walz, director of the Redevelopment Agency, to resign. The group issued a news release Monday claiming that the RDA has invested millions in taxpayer funds not to address the city’s dire lack of affordable housing, but to subsidize the construction of new luxury apartments.
Leia Larsen is a sixth generation Utahn and a water and land use reporter reporter for The Salt Lake Tribune. She has covered environment, energy and political issues throughout the West. When she’s not chasing the news, Leia can be found exploring the Wasatch Mountains, sleeping in the desert or rooting around her garden.