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Taxpayers spent over half a million dollars to clean homeless encampments in 2021

Advocates say money would have been better spent on housing and services.

(Ben Tecumseh DeSoto | The Utah Investigative Journalism Project) Salt Lake City police enforce an abatement on unsheltered residents living on a cul-de-sac near 150 North and 700 West, Thursday, July 7, 2022. Government agencies are likely to continue camp cleanups, which don’t treat homelessness and simply push the unhoused to different corners of the city and county.