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SALT LAKE CITY — There are three candidates running for the Salt Lake City Mayor's seat: Erin Mendenhall, Rocky Anderson, and Michael Valentine.
Rocky Anderson served as mayor of Salt Lake City from 2000-2008. He is now seeking his third term in the 2023 election. Some of his priorities if elected include public safety, affordability, and addressing homelessness. Anderson lived in Salt Lake City for three years growing up, he did his undergraduate studies in the city before pursuing a law degree elsewhere, but eventually made his way back to Salt Lake City in 1978 and has been in the city since.
"I'm running to make sure our city government is as amazing as the community is as amazing as our potential, our slogan is 'Let's build the Salt Lake City of our wildest dreams' and I think that's something within our grasp," Valentine said. Rocky Anderson:"Affordability's relative to what it is you making, for the service sector, for most working people, for those who are truly in need these so-called"affordable units" are not affordable. We need to look at what other places are starting to do and what other nations around the world have such great success in and that is non-market, mixed-income housing, where the city builds it, we have control over the rents.
Rocky Anderson:"The first step is to get a place for people to get out of the encampments all over our city and then we in the long term though need to do what we were doing when I was mayor before and that's everybody the philanthropic community, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the business community, everybody pitching in and building permanent supportive housing for the chronically homeless.
Mendenhall also mentioned the addition of the new regional park at the new Raging Waters site, Glendale Regional Park, that broke ground last week.
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