U researchers craft statewide plan to address homelessness
University of Utah researchers have authored Utah’s first statewide plan to address
homelessness. The plan’s title reveals its sweeping ambition: “To make homelessness
in all of Utah rare, brief and non-recurring.” “It’s sort of the guide,” says Jesus
Valero, assistant professor of political science and one of the plan’s authors. “The
layout of what the issues are. What some of the ideas for addressing those issues
are. A timetable of things that need to get done, benchmarks and measurements of progress
that need to take place in order to achieve our goals.”