23-03-2020 13:00 via sltrib.com

Coronavirus, earthquake overburdening Salt Lake County’s homeless resource system

When the ground stopped shaking after a magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck the Wasatch Front on Wednesday, a pile of bricks lined the street outside the Salt Lake City Rescue Mission and the 140 or so people who’d sought shelter there found themselves homeless once again.As the faith-based organization worked to assess the damage to its building, its immediate plan was to temporarily house 50 of the displaced individuals in the Ogden Rescue Mission up north.But by the end of the day, the Ogde
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