SL Streets The Voice Of The Homeless

Back Online
After a long 9 months of being offline, SL Streets is making a reappearance. We will be looking forward to returning to homeless advocacy work and working at ending homelessness in America. I hope that old visitors and new will learn from the homeless views viewed here. We will be working on finding issues nationwide that need to hear the voice from the streets when the homeless lives are being forgotten or stomped on.

The official re-launch date of SL Streets will be Sept. 26, 2006, in the mean time while developing the new site, we will work at delivering articles 2-4 times a week.

Thanks,
Scott Sowle

Salt Lake City "Riff Raff"

A recent section of the City Weeekly from Salt Lake City, put a blinded view on the homeless.

Shane Johnson was writing about an incident that occured near the local homeless shelter and reffered to an area that the homeless have been located at for many years. This area was redeveloped with a high end walking mall and several other new projects that have seen the homeless having to adapt to their new surroundings. He stated that "islands of green on 500 West between North Temple and 400 South—have instead become stomping grounds for the homeless and assorted riff raff". What Mr. Johnson may not realize or has refused to remember that this "stomping grounds" was the home and hangout for the homeless and less fortunate long before the new development.

I wrote the City Weekly and hope to get a response concerning this article. You can view the article Clean Sweep and my response.

Salt Lake City "Riff Raff"

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