The Road Home’s downtown shelter stopped providing services on Thursday, marking the official end of an old “warehousing” model for delivering homeless resources in the Salt Lake City area and the beginning of a new era more focused on providing services.
But skepticism remains about whether the three new homeless resource centers will be able to fill the void left by the downtown shelter’s closure moving into the cold winter months. With 700 beds, the new system will have the capacity for about 400 fewer people than could fit inside The Road Home and the two open resource centers are already overflowing.