Poverty & Homelessness – Resource Kit

The Utah Women & Leadership Project (UWLP) team, together with the Poverty & Homelessness Spoke advisors within A Bolder Way Forward, have curated a collection of recommended resources. This includes UWLP research and materials as well as valuable contributions from statewide and national community partners and organizations. To get involved in positive change, take action by exploring what you can do as individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.

Key Resources

Research Reports

Podcasts & Videos

Articles

Homelessness Among Utah Women (LinkedIn, 2023)
Homelessness Among Utah Women (LinkedIn, 2026)
Poverty Among Utah Women (LinkedIn, 2022)
Single Mothers in Utah (LinkedIn, 2024)
Women Are 80% More Likely Than Men to Face Poverty After Age 65 (Salt Lake Business Journal, 2025)

Community Research

Being Educated Works: A Look at Educational Attainment and Unemployment (Utah Department of Workforce Services, 2023)
Priority Issues #9: Poverty [search word: “female”] (Utah Foundation, Oct. 2012)
Status of Women in the States: Utah (Institute for Women’s Policy Research)
The Best and Worst States Overall for Women in 2015 [search word: “Utah”] (Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Nov. 2015)
The Justice Gap: Addressing the Unmet Legal Needs of Lower-Income Utahns [search words: "women," "woman," and "gender"] (Utah Foundation, Apr. 2020)
The Well-Being of Women in Utah: An Overview (Institute for Women’s Policy Research, 2014)
Utah’s Fifth Annual Report on Intergenerational Poverty, Welfare Dependency and the Use of Public Assistance (Intergenerational Welfare Reform Commission, 2016)
Utah's Eighth Annual Report (Intergenerational Welfare Reform Commission, 2019)
Working Families Benchmarking Project 2021: Utah vs Arizona (Voices for Utah Children, May 2021)

If you have any changes or additions, please email UWLP@usu.edu.

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Community Resources

Resources:

Community Resource Guide (End Utah Homelessness)
Intergenerational Poverty Mitigation Act (Utah Code)
Poverty Simulation (Community Action Partnership of Utah)
State and County Quick-Facts: Utah (United States Census Bureau)
Talk Poverty (Poverty by State: Utah. Center for American Progress)
The Opportunity Atlas (Opportunity Insights)
Utah Homelessness Data Dashboards (Workforce Service, Homeless Services)

Organizations: