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Salt Lake City Council approves temporary homeless overflow shelter in west-side hotel

Council members say the ‘eleventh hour’ decision was necessary to keep people off the streets on cold winter nights.

(Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo) This Nov. 18, 2020, file photo shows one of the numerous homeless camps that have popped up in downtown Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City on Friday announced the opening of a temporary overflow shelter in a hotel on west North Temple.