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‘Not why we elected you’: Davis County secured 3 emergency homeless shelters after a church backed out. Residents are furious.

The county is required by the state to secure temporary homeless shelters to activate during frigid weather this year.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Mountain Road Church in Fruit Heights, on Tuesday, Nov 12, 2024. The church had initially offered to serve as a local emergency shelter for homeless people on especially cold nights but has since backed out after residents showed up in droves to protest the plan.