{ Case Study: Salt Lake City and San Francisco Emily Sobolewski Knight

 In 2004, Salt Lake City proposed a 10 year plan to end homelessness  Population of Salt Lake City: 191,000  Homeless Population in 2004: 3,000 people “A Decade of Homelessness”

 Stable, secure housing available for homeless  Onsite counseling available  Down 74% in the last 8 years  Permanently houses 2,000 formerly chronic homeless people, 400 remain on the streets Housing First Initiative

Grace Mary Manor, one of Salt Lake City’s Housing First developments

 Same housing imitative proposed in San Francisco in 2004  Population of San Francisco: 837,000  Housing 6,000 homeless people- roughly 2,000 still on the streets  The Problems:  Location  Space  Cost of Life San Francisco: Why is it struggling?

 Freedom (or lack of) to remake and re-engineer city spaces  Quality of life as an urban commodity Reconstruction of Urban Environments