Utah is the first state to implement a program that has reduced its statewide homeless rate by 78 percent, putting it on course to end the problem within two years. The original goal, as outlined in a 2008 state government report, was to end it by 2014, so as 2015 rings in another year, policymakers hope the problem will be done away with. Utah
Homelessness To Be Problem Of The Past In Utah By 2015
The state has taken a simple approach to ending the problem: free housing.