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Salt Lake City Tribune

A Utah lawmaker wants less resistance to homeless shelters from neighbors. He hopes stricter rules for service providers help.

Salt Lake City Tribune
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Rep. Tyler Clancy wants to make shelters safer and cleaner inside and out.

He wants to set specific rules around how staff deal with dangerous behavior in shelters.

Clancy's concerns stem from 2017 ’s Operation Rio Grande effort to weed out camping near downtown Salt Lake City .

State leaders’ frustration with homelessness enforcement has emerged as a sticking point ahead of legislative session.