Utah panel green-lights cash for final homeless shelter site

SALT LAKE CITY — A state committee has approved $4.5 million to buy a downtown Deseret Industries thrift store to replace an overcrowded homeless shelter beset by violence.The LDS Church-owned building at 131 E. 700 South is one of three future homeless resource centers in Salt Lake City and South Salt Lake to replace the downtown Road Home shelter.The State Homeless Coordinating Committee approved the purchase of the last of the three sites for the shelters Tuesday. The Church of Jesus Ch