☀️ Salt Lake heats up

SLCo’s New Homelessness Plan

Salt Lake County has a new plan to tackle homelessness. What can we expect from the strategy, especially in light of the recent Supreme Court ruling allowing cities to criminalize sleeping outside? [City Cast Salt Lake 🎧]

The Housing Market Cools

The weather may be hot, but Salt Lake City’s housing market is cooling down faster than the national average. The Salt Lake metro area saw a 5% decrease in homes sold within two weeks compared to a 3% drop across the U.S. [Salt Lake Axios]

• Related: Why you can’t buy your downtown apartment. [City Cast Salt Lake 🎧]

Latest on the Book Ban Law

With Utah’s “sensitive materials” law in effect, the Utah State Board of Education will now compile a list of books that must be removed from all public schools if at least three school districts (or two districts and five charter schools) report the same book as “pornographic or indecent.” Districts will be notified by Aug. 5 of which books need to be removed and disposed of. The books cannot be sold or redistributed. [KUER]

Deer Springs Wildfire

The largest wildfire in Utah, the Deer Springs Fire, has burned almost 12,000 acres. As of Tuesday, July 9, it was at 0% containment in rural Kane County near Bryce Canyon National Park. No evacuations have been ordered. [ABC 4]

• Related: Wildfire warnings. [City Cast Salt Lake 🎧]

A First Look at Salt Lake County’s Homelessness Plan

Salt Lake County has a brand new homelessness plan, and we want to know: What’s in it? Katherine Fife, Salt Lake County’s associate deputy mayor, joins executive producer Emily Means to explain what the county is doing to address this statewide humanitarian crisis, in light of the recent Supreme Court ruling allowing cities to criminalize homelessness.