Downtown Alliance to fund 'street team' to help relieve homeless issues

SALT LAKE CITY — Determined to help reduce issues associated with Salt Lake City's overwhelmed homeless shelter, downtown business leaders are stepping in.

Their plan: a paid "street team" with backgrounds in social work roaming the streets of downtown Salt Lake City — some on bikes, others on Segways — doing everything from scrubbing graffiti to asking the nearby panhandler, "How can I help?" Read More