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More people than ever are camping on Salt Lake City streets as winter makes its freezing approach. The Road Home Shelter is full and a new evaluation of the Rio Grande area downtown reveals that one of five homeless people (21 percent) are living outside. But Wednesday, the administration of Mayor Jackie Biskupski said it had no plans to open any more overflow shelter space, despite urging by the Salt Lake City Council to do so. The administration’s statement comes as new data became public fro...

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