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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