The total number of people accessing homeless services in Utah rose by 10% in June and the number of people exiting the system fell by 45%, according to the homeless data dashboard.
SALT LAKE CITY — The total number of people accessing homeless services rose by 10% in Utah in June, and the number of people exiting the system fell by 45%, according to the homeless data dashboard.
1,600 exiting the system — 425 persons in families; 991 single adults; 96 unaccompanied youth and 89 unknown.Of the families experiencing homelessness in June, 461 were children who spent at least a single night in a homeless shelter. The number is just a fraction of an increasing problem experienced by low-income families with children in Utah.
"I think that there's a lot of the energy around homelessness that has tended to focus on people who are unsheltered because that's the people who are seen as being homeless," said Crossroads Urban Center Executive Director Bill Tibbitts. "Up until last year, most of the time, families with kids had a place indoors and so the focus has not been on children."
"They'd always found ways when they had the giant warehouse, always found ways to rearrange them to make space for kids," said Tibbitts. When the shelter was converted to a family shelter with a fixed number of beds, it complicated access, he added. Around 68 families had been turned away during that time.
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