Shelter funding plan stripped of fee on cities lacking affordable housing

SALT LAKE CITY — After some final-hour negotiations, a bill that would have required cities lacking affordable housing to help pay for homeless shelters in other cities was drastically altered on the Senate floor Wednesday and got final approval from the House.But it still accomplishes the same goal: funding half of the three new homeless resource centers' annual operation costs. The bill now goes to Gov. Gary Herbert for consideration.Before it was substituted, HB462 would have fined Utah