2026-09-03 · housing
Longtime Utah homeless cleanup nonprofit on brink of bankruptcy, issues 'urgent' call for help
Advantage Services, a nonprofit that employs about 120 people who have experienced homelessness or other disadvantages for cleanup, shuttle and storage work, said it must raise $750,000 in September or faces possible closure at the end of October. CEO Rob Ferris said its largest contract, with Salt Lake City's Urban Services Division, was cut from roughly $2 million to less than $1 million after the city shifted the work to its in-house Clean City team, and that insurance costs rose from $177,000 to more than $400,000 this year. The city's Public Services Department said the contract reduction was a decision to save taxpayer money.
Advantage Services operates Salt Lake City's Transitional Storage Program, which has more than 500 bins where people experiencing homelessness can store their belongings.