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Salt Lake police block off 500 West as Salt Lake County Health Department workers clean up homeless encampments in Salt Lake City on Dec. 9, 2020. A new overflow shelter for the homeless has opened on the city’s west side.
Laura Seitz, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY County homelessness leaders this week announced the opening of the final winter overflow shelter in Salt Lake City after a tense search for additional housing as temperatures cooled.
The Airport Inn Hotel at 2333 W. North Temple adds between 100 and 120 additional beds to the existing sheltering capacity, according to the Salt Lake Valley Coalition to End Homelessness. The shelter, which opened on Monday, is catered toward couples.
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