Seeing a crisis brewing for homeless single mothers and their children, Crossroads Urban Center is calling to remake the troubled Road Home shelter downtown into a family facility.
The aging and much maligned shelter is scheduled to be closed by June 30, 2019.
But with a newly minted report that reveals that women and their children are facing growing barriers to finding housing due to rising rents, low wages and a lack of childcare, officials of the nonprofit that serves the impoverished, said Wednesday that more shelter space is a necessity.
Not everyone agrees. Preston Cochrane, the incoming executive director of Shelter the Homeless, the nonprofit agency that owns and operates the shelters in the Salt Lake area, said planners have considered capacity issues to make sure there is enough to meet demand.