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Articles by Rob Wesemann
Help us find a shelter for the homeless before winter sets in
As co-chairs of the Salt Lake Valley Coalition to End Homelessness, we have been striving to find short and long-term solutions to homelessness across Salt Lake County. Unfortunately, our long-term efforts are hindered each year by the need to locate, fund, staff and operate emergency overflow shelter with too little time and limited options. In our third year of seeking temporary emergency housing sites, we find ourselves once again without sufficient overflow beds and winter mere weeks away.
Jean Hill and Rob Wesemann: Housing First approach is the best way to solve homelessness
Lacking a home makes it more difficult to get a job or needed services. (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Pamela’s Place honoring its namesake, Pamela Atkinson, opens with 100-units of supportive housing for disabled and the chronically homeless, which includes a 24-hour health clinic, food pantry and other amenities at 525 S. 500 West in Salt Lake City.
Jean Hill and Rob Wesemann: Utah is far short of what it needs in affordable housing
The Housing First model of dealing with homelessness works. If there is housing. (Al Hartmann | Tribune file photo) Homeless people gather on 500 West near the Road Home shelter on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016. By Jean Hill and Rob Wesemann | Special to The Tribune | Feb. 12, 2021, 5:38 p.m. Utah has done so much on so many levels to address homelessness over the past several years, even managing to reduce homelessness among veterans to 4%.
Jean Hill and Rob Wesemann: Resource centers are not turning away the homeless
(Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo) Shelter the Homeless and Catholic Community Services of Utah hold a public open house at the Gail Miller Resource Center on Friday, Sept. 6, 2019, with self-guided tours for the public to see the brand new building and learn about the services that will be provided there for both men and women. As news reports suggest, the new homeless resource centers for women are full on a regular basis.
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