(Salt Lake City, UT) — A Utah bill affecting homeless shelters is still not law as it awaits Governor Cox’s signature. HB421 was passed during the recent legislative session. This legislation is called the Homelessness and Vulnerable Populations Amendments. Once signed, the bill requires homeless resource centers wanting state funding […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Business leaders in Salt Lake City are supporting Governor Cox’s homelessness proposal. The plan would see services expand spending by just over 190-million dollars. Most of it would go to fund emergency shelters. City leaders like Salt Lake Chamber CEO Derek Miller credit Cox’s decision […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah lawmakers will have a great deal to discuss before they return to the State Capitol for their next session in January. Interim committees will be holding hearings throughout the year and the topics up for discussion were released yesterday. Lawmakers will keep working on […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Spencer Cox is asking Utahns to donate a little bit of money to help alleviate homelessness. It’s estimated that about 35-hundred people experience homelessness every night and 30-percent are families with children. At a news conference yesterday, Cox asked every Utahn who’s filing a […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — There’s still time to provide feedback on the state’s strategic plan for addressing homelessness. The Utah Office of Homeless Services released the “Statewide Collaboration for Change: Utah’s Plan to Address Homelessness” last month. Public comments will be collected until this Sunday, January 8th. There are […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — While no one living at a Salt Lake City hospice center for homeless people has tested positive for COVID-19, the vaccine’s arrival has provided a new sense of relief. The Salt Lake Tribune reported that staff and medically fragile residents at the medical respite center […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Utah school officials say more than 1,000 homeless students enrolled in Washington County schools last year, and the district is struggling to support the growing population. KUER-FM reported that the state Board of Education says the county has the seventh highest homeless student population of […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Ogden officials are bracing for an influx of homeless people later this year when a major shelter in Salt Lake City is scheduled to close. The Standard-Examiner reports that the Road Home shelter in Salt Lake City that holds up to 1,000 people will be closing […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The state auditor says data about the homeless population is riddled with inconsistencies and doesn’t help evaluate the effectiveness of different programs because of a lack of clear, measurable goals. The audit released last week was designed to help state lawmakers decide which programs deserve […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — State officials have set aside $4 million in hopes of purchasing a downtown Salt Lake City homeless shelter, but a recently released county property assessment shows that may not be enough to purchase it. The Road Home will permanently close its doors in 2019. There […]
