State and local agencies still are working through a backlog of people in need of substance-abuse and mental-health treatment.
They still must quickly finish building three new homeless shelters, pick the groups who will run them and transition hundreds of people who currently find shelter in the Rio Grande neighborhood downtown to the smaller new ones scattered throughout Salt Lake City and South Salt Lake.
And they still must figure out how to close the gap when that transition results in 400 fewer shelter beds available.
These many challenges still lie ahead as the city, county and state continue their all-out attack on homelessness, open drug use and crime downtown, with a price tag around $67 million.