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How did Salt Lake City’s homeless district get so bad and why can’t we fix it?

The area around Pioneer Park and Rio Grande Street’s homeless shelter has long been a place to score illegal drugs. Crack cocaine, methamphetamine and alcohol were the substances of choice until about 2013 or ’14. Then heroin swept in and amped up everything. It’s no longer a drug deal here and there.

 

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