Members of the Salt Lake City Council are worried the plan to help Utah’s homeless may be unrealistic, given the state’s expected population growth.
Three new homeless shelters/resource centers with a total of 700 beds are planned to open in the next year and a half. But then The Road Home shelter on Rio Grande Street, which has a capacity of 1,100 beds, is set to close in June 2019.
That means there’s a 400 bed reduction and District 4 Councilman Derek Kitchen raised concerns Tuesday that the “capacity issue” would only get worse in the years to come.