Three Salt Lake City Council members share what they can and cannot do to help solve homlessness..
Ana Valdemoros, Alejandro Puy and Chris Wharton discussed solutions underway and the limits of their power as elected officials.
“I cannot tell you enough how much we need the help from everybody else,” Puy said, “because Salt Lake City cannot do this alone.” The former Demolition Road Home shelter in Salt Lake City, shown here as demolition began on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020.. However, Wharton said that the city can’t enforce the no-camping ordinance on nights when there aren’t enough shelter beds to offer. Salt Lake Fire Department CHAT members Sarah Bohe and Shannon Luckart assist the unsheltered during an abatement, on Thursday, July 27, 2023.“We can’t force them to go somewhere else unless that place is jail,” Wharton said.
. The health department cuts down tents and shelters on Rio Grande Street, as they swept through the area loading everything into dump trucks on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020.
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