Search results for: “homelessness”
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How Drug Addiction and Homelessness are Intertwined
When someone is faced with addiction, they often can’t control the fate of their living situation as most, if not all, of their focus is solely on obtaining and using…
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Tackling Homelessness in the Suburbs
The homeless problem that has spiraled out of control downtown for years has been spreading to the suburbs and canyons.
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Inside Heroin Addiction and Homelessness in Salt Lake City
If a lighthouse were planted on Lookout Peak above Salt Lake City, you could trace the lambency of its beacon in a southwestern direction down the mountainside, across the polished…
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Utah’s Revolutionary Approach to Solving the Homelessness Problem
Utah looks to solve homeless problems.
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How Does a Person Become Homeless and Addicted? One Utah Father Explains
Back in the 1980s, most Utah parents worried about things like bad grades, skipping church, teenage drinking, or hanging around the wrong crowd. Very few parents walked through downtown Salt…
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Left in a Box as a Baby: Trauma, Alcoholism, and Addiction
A man abandoned as a baby builds a structured life in law enforcement, but unresolved trauma and alcoholism slowly begin to unravel it. His story raises a harder question about…
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Has Utah’s Soft-on-Crime Justice Reform Made Communities Safer?
Has this “soft-on-crime” approach resulted in safer streets? SALT LAKE CITY — A decade has passed since former Utah Governor Gary Herbert signed a massive justice reform bill into law…
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Utah Year in Review: Free Speech, Media, and the Fracturing of American Discourse
Three months after a political killing in Utah stunned the nation, the shock has faded but the consequences have not. What followed was not collective reflection, but open celebration from…
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The Utah Village Proving Housing First Was Never Enough
Utah has spent years investing in Housing First, yet homelessness continues to rise and street conditions grow more chaotic. In the middle of this debate, a small village on Salt…
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Homeless Senior Citizens Speak Out as Utah’s Housing Crisis Pushes Them to the Streets
They worked their whole lives. Now, Utah’s seniors are sleeping under bridges, watching their belongings bulldozed into dumpsters, and fighting to survive freezing nights. In their own words, they speak…
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Salt Lake City’s Forgotten Seniors: When Housing Becomes Out of Reach
As Utah’s housing costs soar, a growing number of seniors are losing everything and ending up on Salt Lake City’s streets. Their stories reveal a crisis deeper than addiction or…
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One Sugar House Shop Owner Takes on Salt Lake City Over Controversial Redevelopment
When Salt Lake City moved forward with its controversial 2100 South redevelopment, one Sugar House business owner refused to stay silent. Bob Campbell, owner of All About Coins, organized the…
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From Jail to a Million-Dollar Salon in Salt Lake City
With two felonies and a year in jail behind him, he walked out with no plan except to never go back. In Salt Lake City, that resolve grew into a…
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Ogden Teen Shelter Funding in Jeopardy Amid Federal Cuts
Federal cuts threaten Youth Futures, Utah’s first drop-in teen shelter, placing critical services for runaway and homeless youth in Ogden at risk.
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Local Magazine Publisher Arrested After Attempted Bank Robbery in Salt Lake City
A Utah magazine publisher was arrested after attempting to rob a bank in a desperate move to save his financially failing publication.
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Salt Lake’s 50 Most Arrested
Salt Lake City knows who they are—50 individuals with more than 70 arrests each. But no one owns the list, and no one is tracking what happens next.