SALT LAKE CITY — For four months, Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams has kept a secret.
Dressed in jeans, sneakers and a hoodie, the county mayor spent three days and two nights walking and sleeping among the homeless and drug-addicted in Salt Lake City's Rio Grande neighborhood.
"I was concerned that it not look like a publicity stunt in the face of human suffering," the mayor said.
Rather, it was meant to help him "deepen" his understanding of the current homeless system before he decided which city would house a third homeless resource center.
He noted that he made an anonymous donation to a homeless providers account for the services he used on those two nights.
That night there were likely about 600 men in the shelter — a large number of people for one shelter to manage.
The Road Home's downtown shelter is under a state-mandated deadline to close in June 2019, when the three new homeless resource centers come online. »
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