"Ed Snoddy, a homeless outreach worker with Volunteers of America since 1995, said he has not personally witnessed people living in storage units. He has worked with many people who live in homeless camps and abandoned buildings.
"This is the first I've heard about it. Personally, on our outreach trips we've never seen it," he told the Deseret News.
Tony Milner is executive director of Family Promise of Salt Lake, a nonprofit agency that provides services and housing to homeless families through a network of churches. More often, people seeking assistance live in their cars, he said.
Rents for storage units are significantly lower than apartments or rooms. A 10-by-10 foot unit rents for about $80 a month.
Cory Milligan, manager of 13th South Self Storage, said finding an apartment or room "is tough once you have bad credit. The economy keeps getting worse. It's probably going to happen more."...."
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