‘5 minutes to begin packing’ — SLC Mayor Erin Mendenhall orders crackdown on homeless camps
She expresses confidence in police Chief Mike Brown while a community partnership pledges millions to help move unsheltered individuals from the streets to housing.
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A "No Camping" signs at Taufer Park in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. Salt Lake City police have begun cracking down on illegal homeless camps as more shelter beds have become available ahead of winter.
Blake joined The Tribune in March 2022 to cover city and county government before becoming an editor in 2024. He is a University of Minnesota graduate who started his journalism career in Las Vegas, where he covered local government, state politics and the depletion of the Colorado River. He is dad to a Golden Retriever named Woodward.