Sign our letter asking the Utah Homeless Services Board to produce a proposal for Governor Cox to fund the production of housing for very low income seniors and families with children

FACE Hunger and Homelessness is circulating the following sign-on letter to be submitted to the members of the Utah Homeless Services Board on September 10 in anticipation of their meeting on September 12. Clergy, lay people, and other concerned citizens are all invited to read the letter and sign it, using the following form, by September 9, 2025 at noon.

September 10, 2025

re:  Funding for deeply affordable housing to meet homeless service system gaps

Dear Utah Homeless Services Board Members: 

We are writing to you as clergy and lay people from a variety of faith traditions, and other concerned citizens, to ask you to prepare a proposal to fund the creation of deeply affordable housing for seniors and families with children to fill gaps in the current homeless services system and help our state move toward a prevention-centered model for reducing homelessness.

On July 29, 2025 Governor Cox, the President of the Utah Senate and the Speaker of the Utah House of Representatives sent a joint letter to the Homeless Services Board challenging Board Members to identify gaps in the existing homeless services system and develop proposals for filling those gaps by the end of this month.  Every gap in the homeless services system would be smaller if Utah had more deeply affordable housing—particularly for seniors and families with children who are both suffering from homelessness in unprecedented ways.  That is why we request you include a serious, multi-year, funding proposal for Utah’s Deeply Affordable Housing Fund in the list of suggestions you are preparing for the Governor and legislative leaders.

Thank you accepting public comment.  We would be happy to meet with you to discuss ideas for innovative approaches to preventing senior and family homelessness and how funding for the Deeply Affordable Housing Fund could help Utah to adopt those approaches.​

Sincerely, 

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