The Pioneer Park Coalition, a community organization that advocates for Salt Lake City’s Rio Grande area and seeks to address issues related to homelessness there, is raising the alarm about the delayed timeline for a massive shift in homelessness services.
The Legislature had initially set a deadline for closure of the downtown shelter located near Pioneer Park on Sunday, a move planned to coincide with the opening of two new homeless resource centers in Salt Lake City and a third in neighboring South Salt Lake. But state officials earlier this year announced they wouldn’t meet that target and pushed the closure to mid-September; last month, they announced they were pushing it again to sometime in October.