'The city and its partners are innovating constantly and doing our best to ensure everyone has the option of a safe, warm place to sleep at night, but to achieve this, that ‘we’ must include more support beyond our city’s boundaries,' Mendenhall writes.
Lee Littleford lives in his van, moving from spot to spot in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. Littleford is known for delivering food to others in the community experiencing homelessness.It’s cold outside with more snow yet to come and in Salt Lake City, we are keenly aware of the number of people who are still without shelter. I appreciate those who have reached out to the city on their behalf. I assure you: I share your frustration.
Salt Lake City comprises a mere 17% of the population in Salt Lake County but hosts more than 72% of its homeless services. As we did last winter and the winter before, Salt Lake City has been working closely with the Salt Lake Valley Coalition to End Homelessness and with community agencies like The Road Home, Volunteers of America, Shelter the Homeless and Utah Community Action to assist them in providing winter overflow shelter.
What our non-profit partners need most right now is sufficient staff to open these overflow options safely. Like so many other employers, they are struggling to recruit qualified workers to do this important work and are operating with dozens of vacancies. Salt Lake City has tried to amplify their pleas for applicants for these positions so they can open these overnight shelter options quickly.
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