Thursday marked one year since the state Division of Community and Housing issued a statement effectively saying chronic homelessness had been solved in Utah. The “Housing First” initiative, a unique program through which qualifying homeless people are given an apartment before other needed services, had reduced the numbers by 91 percent over 10 years, and officials said they knew all the remaining needy people by name. |
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