In July 2019, The Road Home homeless shelter in Salt Lake City will be shut down. In May of this year, the Legislative Auditor General issued a state audit on The Road Home, concluding that the lax rules regarding drug use and “low barrier to entry” needed to be changed, with safety and substance abuse at the top of the list of concerns.
With the closure of The Road Home, many homeless people will either have to go back to living on the road or be displaced to the other smaller homeless shelters. I believe this is potentially very harmful for those currently residing at The Road Home.