Every year, service providers and volunteers take three days to do a very important count. The goal is to assess how many people in Utah are homeless. This data helps determine the amount of federal funding support organizations will get.
As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Utah, more people in the unsheltered community are becoming infected, but most don’t have a place to quarantine. Community services are working to stop the spread.
Utah County has no overnight shelter for people experiencing homelessness. That’s especially a problem on cold winter nights when people have no place to go.
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