SmartMap.us: Planning
Housing the Homeless in Weber County
Wasatch Front Regional Council
Homeless people are a persistent feature of community life in the United States. The costs of homelessness are more severe than generally recognized and are expected to grow. In fact, the gap between household income and housing cost is widening more quickly for people who are already the most at risk for homeless. Most homeless people are either among the working poor or from families in temporary distress.
Research for this plan found that homelessness, by its nature, is difficult to classify. Housing problems are so interwoven with other social ills that placing homeless people into crisp social categories is not practically impossible and sometimes unhelpful. A far greater number of people are functionally homeless in the plan area than the annual point-in-time counts for all categories of traditionally defined homeless people. Even small changes in housing finance interest rates, community rates of unemployment or other macro-economic trends can quickly produce far more technically qualified homeless people than are being treated in all programs combined.
Download Allred's Report "Housing the Homeless in Weber County"
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Comparative Estimates of Homeless in
Wasatch Front Counties[1] |
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(See Appendix A for additional data
limitations) |
Davis |
Morgan |
Tooele |
Salt Lake |
Weber |
|
Total Homeless People[1] |
450[1] |
10[1] |
65 |
3800[1] |
520 |
|
Single Adult Men |
140 |
2 |
20 |
2100 |
320 |
|
Single Adult Women |
30 |
0 |
5 |
500 |
90 |
|
Total People in Families[1] |
220 |
8 |
35 |
500 |
150 |
|
Total Children in Families |
80 |
6 |
25 |
450 |
125 |
|
Children Alone – Girls |
30 |
0 |
8[1] |
200 |
70 |
|
Children Alone – Boys |
35 |
0 |
10 |
400 |
90 |
|
Chronic Homeless Women |
25 |
0 |
2 |
250 |
80 |
|
Chronic Homeless Men |
90 |
1 |
4 |
600 |
120 |
|
Mentally Ill |
120 |
1 |
35[1] |
1500[1] |
300 |
|
Substance Addicts[1] |
260 |
2 |
45[1] |
2200 |
650 |
|
Total Sheltered[1] |
160 |
0[1] |
0 |
1900[1] |
250 |
|
Unsheltered[1] |
230 |
10 |
65[1] |
1900 |
270 |
