Robert Gehrke: Utah needs a workable, certain path for homeless residents, even if that means another shelter
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Robert Gehrke.
| April 5, 2021, 12:04 p.m.
The pandemic has thrown everything about our lives into turmoil, and how we help homeless Utahns is no exception.
This past year, providers scrambled to accommodate the need to socially distance. They reduced beds at the resource centers and lined up overflow shelters and hotel rooms, a patchwork of improvised solutions to keep people safe from the elements and the coronavirus.
They managed to pull it off, to a remarkable degree.
And, while COVID-19 certainly complicated things, it’s not all that different from where we were a year prior, when a winter overflow shelter had to be set up at the old Deseret Industries building in Sugar House.
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