Letter: 'Is there any reason to think that the Legislature’s tinkering with the selection of judges will not result in future legal decisions that favor our developer-landlord legislators and their powerful friends?'
People experiencing homelessness move their belongings after an abatement near the railroad tracks at 800 West and South Temple, on Thursday, June 8, 2023.on boldly confronting the homelessness crisis ! But do you read your own newspaper and its documentation of systemic factors that must contribute to homelessness?
Take landlord-tenant laws in Utah that favor landlords, as you and the Utah Investigative Journalism Project have documented: Covid relief funds, meant to help renters, that went primarily to landlords, until the feds called Utah out; the end of the program resulting in soaring evictions; unchecked misuse of the eviction notification period; imbalanced legal representation of tenant/landlord, which results in legal decisions that hurt tenants; and the state’s entire rental/eviction legal...
Or how about UDOT’s expansion plans that destroy the existing home stock for road expansion: the widening of I-15 to the north of Salt Lake, the new interchanges to make Bangerter into a freeway, and all the projects of road building further west? Destroying peoples’ homes makes them homeless, and they may stay that way in our overheated housing market.
And is there any reason to think that the Legislature’s tinkering with the selection of judges will not result in future legal decisions that favor our developer-landlord legislators and their powerful friends over those who may be on the margin of homelessness? “Les Mis,” which starts with the injustice suffered by Jean Valjean, was just in town. Even if you didn’t see it, your own news coverage should have led you to give at least a bow to systemic factors that affect homelessness, factors that could be changed if there were the political will.
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