The Road Home shelter in Salt Lake City that holds up to 1,000 people will be closing down and three new shelters opening in its place are designed to house 700 people. That decline in beds for homeless people will likely lead many of them to head north to Ogden, said Jay Stretch, the executive director of the Lantern House shelter in Ogden. The shelter is already at capacity, the Standard-Examiner reports .
Ogden saw an increase in homeless people in 2017 when the state launched a law enforcement blitz called Operation Rio Grande in Salt Lake City to clean up crime near the Road Home shelter, according to Ogden officials.