Homeless Resource Centers in Salt Lake City Are a Failure

When a "resource center" designed to help the temporarily homeless get quickly and easily back on their feet is instead, offering a safe haven for criminals and offenders to victimize the homeless, there is something seriously wrong.

According to Bob Danielson, who owns a business just to the West of the Gail Miller Homeless Resource Center, this is exactly what is happening. Danielson says that he personally knows of three homeless individuals who while attempting to go to work, were robbed.

Danielson also says that homeless people who are "good people" are very often the victims of "predators" who seek out those who are working to victimize them by not only robbing them but beating them. Many of the homeless people Utah Stories has interviewed have told us that they are afraid of the Homeless Resource Centers because they are so full of unsavory characters: sex offenders and violent criminals. Utah Stories has reached out to the management company (The Road Home) for interviews. They have yet to agree to our interview requests.

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