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Salt Lake City updates winter shelter planning, mobile hygiene pilot and short‑term ‘community corner’ outreach site
Summary
City staff briefed council on a county winter‑services plan that would add roughly 400 beds, a state‑led transformative campus still short on funding, a local mobile hygiene pilot awarded to a nonprofit, and a temporary fenced ‘community corner’ outreach site running Mondays–Wednesdays through the winter plan opening.
City homelessness and outreach staff told the council on Aug. 12 that the county’s winter‑services plan envisions a substantial increase in temporary shelter capacity but that funding and site availability remain unresolved.
Andrew Johnson, director of homeless policy and outreach, said the task force’s estimate was about 1,300 temporary beds overall based on last year’s point‑in‑time count, last winter’s shelter utilization, turnaways and Code Blue nights; that figure is “in addition to the 20 year‑round beds we have fully funded in the HRCs,” he said. Johnson said about 400 of the…
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