Jan 17, 2024 · After analyzing 69 cities in Utah, South Salt Lake takes the top spot as the most dangerous city in Utah based on the most recently reported FBI data — 2022. The latest FBI crime data shows that South Salt Lake ranks as the most dangerous city in Utah for 2024.

It highlights a lack of recognition of actual drivers for sanitation improvements, and the complexities in the provision of sanitation services in the context of urban slums with a mix of tenants and landlords. It elaborates how the drivers of demand for sanitation outlined in contemporary research are not universal but are rather context specific.

Experts agree that racial discrimination was a clear objective of redlining in Utah. There’s even some mention of race in the historical descriptions of neighborhoods, as well as coded...

Feb 23, 2022 · During the 1800s, Blacks were restricted to the commercial sections of the city. Those areas were considered the slums of Salt Lake City and marked on maps as redlined areas. Quist found the...

A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and often associated with poverty. The infrastructure in slums is often deteriorated or incomplete, and they are primarily inhabited by impoverished people. [1]

Under this law, a landlord must provide safe and livable housing. This means the landlord must rent housing that is up to code. A faulty toilet, no hot water, a broken staircase, bare electric wires, and dangerous holes in the floor are all examples of things a landlord must fix.

Mar 21, 2022 · Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall says tiny homes will work in part because they offer privacy and independence, attracting people who might not be comfortable with existing housing options...

Jan 3, 2020 · I realize that contractors are most interested in money, but why is the city allowing them to design such cheap, cut-rate housing, essentially instant slums?

May 3, 2024 · With no money to spend and no elections to win, Utah lawmakers went to work tightening their leash on the state. Donald Trump's anti-trans executive orders are harming kids like mine and turning schools into political battlegrounds.

Jul 28, 2011 · A slum is a very low income area marked by poor living conditions, sometimes crime. Some ghettos became slums and so now the two ideas have intertwined in the minds of many.