Operation Rio Grande: One year in and millions of dollars spent lead to one question: Is it working?

Utah still needs thousands of housing units for low-income residents. Tens of thousands.State and local agencies still are working through a backlog of people in need of substance-abuse and mental-health treatment.They still must quickly finish building three new homeless shelters, pick the groups who will run them and transition hundreds of people who currently find shelter in the Rio Grande neighborhood downtown to the smaller new ones scattered throughout Salt Lake City and South Salt Lake.An