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Exemplary Program in Utah. <br />Utah's Housing Works Program is Set to End Homelessness <br />This Year <br />Published: Feb 3, 2014 • References: housingworks.utah.gov & huffingtonpost <br />Over the past five years, homelessness has dropped 69% in Utah and this year, it could be <br />eliminated all together with the Housing Works program. Despite rising poverty rates across the <br />United States, Utah is one state that is clearly doing something right. It's been a 10 year process, <br />but the Ten -Year Strategic Action Plan to End Chronic Homelessness now aims to end the cycle <br />of poverty in 2014. Quite simply, Utah is remedying homelessness by providing homes. <br />Utah's Housing Works program provides a permanent home for its homeless citizens and gives <br />them access to substance abuse programs, job training and other social services. Housing costs <br />about 30% of state - facilitated income and residents are encouraged to be "good stewards of their <br />personal and shared housing areas and maintain good relations with other tenants, case <br />managers, and property managers." <br />The Housing Works program is having such a profound effect on Utah, it may even be able to <br />close some of its homeless shelters and reallocate these million dollar budgets to other homeless <br />services within the community. <br />85AA -53 <br />