Salt Lake City announces the site of its first sanctioned camp.
Officials announce the location of a legal homeless camp in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023.Salt Lake City announced that an undeveloped lot on the corner 300 South and 600 West near the Utah Transit Authority’s Central Station will serve as a “temporary shelter community” for unhoused people for the next 180 days.
“It’s never been as simple as finding a piece of land and saying ‘have at it,’” the mayor said. “Success means security for the residents and for the surrounding community and to ensure that the sites don’t become magnets for crime and exploitation.”The new “shelter community” comes as Salt Lake City — and greater Utah — faces a deepening affordable housing crisis and the number of people experiencing homelessness for the first time is on the rise.
Other cities in the Mountain West have turned to sanctioned camping as a temporary solution to providing safer spaces for unsheltered populations. In Denver, the Safe Outdoor Spaces program serves 150 people in three different camps across the city, The Tribune Ashley Gomez sits amongst her belongings after being forced to pack up her tent up on Rio Grande Street, on Monday, Jan. 9, 2023.
A no camping sign at the site of a future legal homeless camp in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. She noted that the new shelter would not be a solution for everyone, but “it’s the beginning of a new service model that we haven’t ever seen in the state of Utah, and it’s on top of 600 shelter beds that we’ll be opening in November with the winter overflow plan.”
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