Utah Homeless Task Force
Director of the Utah Homeless Task Force, which reduced the number of homeless people by 72 percent in nine years
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Lloyd Pendleton
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FROM Lloyd Pendleton
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Homelessness: A Local Approach to a Global Crisis Lloyd Pendleton left a job with the Ford Motor Company for the Welfare Department of the Church of Latter Day Saints. In 2006, he took over Utah's Homeless Task Force with the goal of ending chronic homeless in the next ten years. So far, he's cut it by 91%. Today, he's visiting Los Angeles and joining our program.
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