Salt Lake City cannot be expected to handle the burden of homelessness by itself. Mayor Erin Mendenhall is happy Millcreek's mayor is stepping up to help.
Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall discusses the plans for winter overflow shelters and and transitional housing, during a news conference at City Hall, on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022.“When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.”The mayor of Salt Lake City was happy to hear recently that another mayor,, has stepped forward to offer an unused library building in his town as a cold-weather overflow shelter for homeless people this winter.
Leaders of other cities, of Salt Lake County and — in the person of Wayne Niederhauser, Utah’s homeless services coordinator — the state are coming together to collectively grasp that the build-up, tear-down approach to winter shelter for the homeless is not a sustainable way to approach the problem any more.
It is, and always will be, more than bricks and mortar. Given the number of people who are homeless due to addiction, mental illness or mental limitations, there will always be a need for what are known in the profession as wraparound services. Which means professional staff, in some cases available 24/7, providing case management, dealing with crisis situations, enforcing rules and, hopefully less often, calling in law enforcement.
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