Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox said Tuesday that the question of whether to keep the Road Home’s homeless shelter open through the winter months is still on the table after persistent concerns over lack of capacity within three new resource centers in the Salt Lake City area.
The size of the problem came into sharper focus at a meeting of the nonprofit overseeing the reinvented system to address homelessness, with service providers revealing space problems now affecting homeless women will likely worsen once the third and final resource center for men opens next month.
That’s because the 160 beds currently available for men within the new system are already full and the new resource center won’t have enough space to handle the 408 men who stayed Monday night at The Road Home’s shelter.