Should Utah cities do more to shelter the homeless during winter months?
“’There’s no way anybody’s going to heal from that unless they have a stable housing situation,’ he told the committee.
Utah has a shortage of affordable housing, Niederhauser said, and homelessness will continue to be an issue until it’s adequately addressed. HB440 is a useful stopgap measure to provide help until the larger issues can be mitigated, he said.
‘It’s been a challenge every year to get an overflow shelter in place. This will, I think, get us to a point where we have something ready when bad weather comes,’ he said.”