Once lauded as a leader among United States cities struggling to relieve homelessness, the number of people sleeping rough in Utah’s capital has spiked in the past two years, as funding for its ground-breaking housing program dried up.
U.S. Homelessness is on the rise for the second year in a row, according to a December report by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The increase has been particularly noticeable in Utah, which had reduced chronic homelessness by 91 percent over the decade up to 2015, according to the state’s annual homelessness report. ...