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After 5 people died on streets this winter, Salt Lake City stopped counting deaths, Tribune found

Information about unsheltered people dying currently comes through informal channels and likely undercounts the true death toll.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) A man stands by the tent where a man experiencing homelessness was found dead in Salt Lake City in December 2022. The man found dead was one of five unsheltered people who died in Salt Lake City within one week. But beyond those seven days, city officials have not tracked the deaths of unsheltered people during one of Salt Lake City’s snowiest winters on record, The Tribune found.