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Conversation Series on Housing and Homelessness shows how state and local government can promote affordable housing during a recession and highlights specific types of housing that are needed

7/20/2020

 
For years Crossroads Urban Center has hosted a Meet the Candidates Barbecue in July and a Poverty Summit in August. This year we were unable to organize those events and instead put together a series of three discussions about homelessness and housing featuring elected officials and some of Utah's biggest experts on the housing needs in our state. Watch the videos below to see what we learned.

Conversation Series Call to Action:
Ask the At Large Members of the Salt Lake County Council to be champions for Family Supportive Housing

Homelessness is traumatic for children and  can have long term impacts on health and educational attainment.  2,304 people in families with children spent at least one night in a homeless shelter in Salt Lake County last year.  1,372 of those people were children.  291 of those children were homeless for more than three months and 178 had been homeless at least four times during the past three years.  
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Crossroads Urban Center believes these facts show Salt Lake County needs 150 units of supportive housing designed to help children and their parents recover from the traumas of homelessness.  We also believe Salt Lake County government is best situated to spearhead the creation of these units.

If you agree, please contact the three members of the Salt Lake County Council who represent the entire County and ask them to be a champion for homeless children and help promote the development of Family Supportive Housing..
Council Member Shireen Ghorbani, At Large District A: 
     [email protected] (385) 468-7451 
Council Member Richard Snelgrove, At Large District B: 
 
    [email protected]  (385) 468-7452 
Council Member Jim Bradley, At Large District C:  
     
[email protected]  (385) 468-7453

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