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HELPER, Utah (AP) -- State and local officials have broken ground on two new housing projects for the homeless in rural Utah.
Avalon House in Helper and The Newhouse in Price will provide more than 50 apartments to help tenants -- who will pay no more than 30 percent of their income on rent -- get job training and reintegrate into society.
Gordon Walker, director of the state Division of Housing and Community Development, says it's important to focus on the state's largest cities, but he said it's impossible to eliminate chronic homelessness without also spending time and money in Utah's rural areas.
Utah has a goal to end chronic homelessness by 2014.
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Information from: The Salt Lake Tribune
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