Continue the state’s “micro shelter” program, meant to offer an option to people who have resisted congregate shelters due to anxiety being around large groups. Currently the state is operating a temporary, 50-bed micro shelter pilot program at 600 West and 300 South in Salt Lake City...
It will be the biggest homeless facility seen since a larger emergency shelter located in downtown Salt Lake City was shut down in 2019. So what’s next? And why are state officials now moving ahead with a larger facility, even though years ago the goal was to operate smaller shelters sca...
This study uses a narrative political ecology approach to document and analyze how people experiencing unsheltered homelessness along an urban riparian corridor in Salt Lake County, Utah, engage with seasonal episodic poor air quality. In-depth, on-site semi-structured interviews (n=16) were ...
The report’s data relies on volunteers, who manually canvas communities each January to survey homeless populations, as well as local outreach staff and estimates from shelters and other homelessness services and facilities. While imperfect, the report’s point-in-time estimate has provided ...
economy, mental health, drug use/addiction, and the fact that some people are just happier living that way, some aid can quickly fail or not even be welcomed. If you can help or are in need of it, you can reach out to your local shelters and authorities for options in your community...
It was estimated that at the beginning of the pandemic, 400,000 units would need to be created in the United States in order to safely socially distance, isolate, and protect the homeless against the virus in place of the crowded shelters that typically are used, according to...
“Back in 2000, we started building permanent supportive housing,” said Michelle Heritage, executive director of the Community Shelter Board. “We had a Housing First strategy 20 years ago, and our shelters are ultra low-barrier with no eligibility requirements of any kind and our permanent supp...
This study uses a narrative political ecology approach to document and analyze how people experiencing unsheltered homelessness along an urban riparian corridor in Salt Lake County, Utah, engage with seasonal episodic poor air quality. In-depth, on-site semi-structured interviews ( n =16) were ...
While there are multiple categories of institutions that are considered part of the sheltered status definition (e.g., emergency shelters, congregate shelters, transitional housing, motels paid for by charitable organizations), unsheltered homelessness may include people living in spaces including cars...
Three leverage points were identified in this study to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the current strategies to address homelessness: (1) increasing the number of affordable permanent housing units, (2) increasing the utilization of transitional housing units or shelters by the ...